Nigeria: The World’s Most Puzzling Enigma Where Politicians Make The Same Promises Each Time Since 1979, Yet Nothing Changes
The Oasis Reporters
May 26, 2025
If Nigerians were not being observed every Sunday as they fill Churches up for prayers and singing to Almighty God and on Fridays for supplications to Almighty Allah, one would have believed that a huge spell had been cast on the country to make it static or to stay on the same spot, 46 years after with politicians making the same promises of change with nothing actually changing.
As a country with over 200 million people, promises each election cycle with unending promises of change remain exactly what they are: Promises.
Life changes for the better only for politicians while penury remains for Nigerians on a daily basis as suffering remains.
This makes discerning people believe and say that indeed, the nation is under a spell and politicians actually make fake promises which they regurgitate every election season without solving any real problems.
A photo of a newspaper advert in 1983 has been circulating online of Shehu Shagari’s National Party of Nigeria (NPN) when he was running for reelection after a lackluster performance in his first tenure.
Imagine the promises that were made again after the first four years between 1979 and again in 1983.
President Shehu Shagari promised to provide every town and village with water. 42 years after, in 2025, politicians are still campaigning with it as a promise.
Yet where is the water?
He also promised industrialization and this has not materialized. Nigeria is now worse off as a net exporter of all manner of goods.
People were promised electricity. While some countries like Egypt have achieved it within a few years, Nigeria is still struggling with less than 4,000 MWs of electricity for the whole country, a quantity that is hardly enough for New York City.
Shehu Shagari also promised effective medical services. Today over 5000 Nigerian medical professionals are practicing in the USA while politicians have fantastic estacodes for medical vacations abroad in foreign hospitals while the ones in Nigeria lack equipment and personnel.
Shehu Shagari also promised abundant food supplies, but farmers can’t even access their farms due to insecurity.
Yet politicians keep making the same promises each election cycle and people keep voting for them. That is the classical enigma in believing the oppressors of Nigeria.
