Nigerian pop star, Innocent Idibia aka 2face has over the years gained the reputation for speaking his mind when it comes to issues of national development.
The singer who has been at the fore front of mobilizing young Nigerians for the 2019 elections has declared derisively that Nigeria has a political system with more criminals.
In his words: ”Nigeria is where it is today because from government to the people, they have failed to coordinate themselves.”
“We have also not been able to psyche ourselves up, stand up and use the actual potential we have to the benefit of the country. We have not been able to do that, and I always talk about it. It boils down to the fact that we have a political system that has more criminals than those that have the interest of the country at heart. And that’s the reason we are where we are today”, he told Vanguard
When asked to give a scorecard about how he fared in 2018, he said:”I will describe my 2018 as life. Every year has its ups and downs, every year has its high and low points. I definitely had my low and high points. But in all, majority of what we set out to achieve, we achieved them last year. All the mistakes we made last year, we have learnt from them as well. In fact, last year was cool,” he continued. “But for Nigeria, I don’t know whether last year was good or bad. Honestly, I don’t understand what’s happening in Nigeria . I see the news from different directions. But one thing I made out from last year was that for the past three years, we haven’t really known what’s going on in the country. That’s my standpoint. I don’t know whether the government is working or not. I don’t just know and I’m also sure that many Nigerians share that sentiment. One thing we share in common is the increasing rate of hardship in the land. For me, we faced a lot of hardships last year.”