I'm not big on politics. In fact, I dislike politics because of the shit my fellow citizens and I have found ourselves in.

We all want our country to get better, but can it truly get better? So much of how we do things, how we behave, how we respond, how we act, is truly terrible.

Our problems aren't caused only by the people at the top. They're also caused by all of us at the grassroots.

There's no way Nigeria will work with the kind of people we've been groomed to be. We're greedy, selfish and wicked, and power only makes these traits worse.

• The churches: Instead of helping to create jobs, they keep taking from you to build more churches, auditoriums and properties that aren't even open for you to use.

• The people: Oh please! Everyone can do it better than the people at the top, until they get to the top. The problem isn't that you're not a good person who could be a good leader. The problem is that bad company corrupts good people. You can't be the only good person in a sea of bad ones; they'll either frustrate your efforts or get you to join them. Some days I wish we could clear out every leader and start over. But they're all somebody's daddy and mummy, so I guess not. And even if they were all gone, who's to say the next set of people in those seats wouldn't be worse?

• Small government positions: Visit any small government parastatal and you'll see, at a smaller scale, the same rot that goes on in the bigger seats. Everyone is thinking about their own pockets, their kinsmen who speak their language, and so on. We've allowed greed and tribalism to eat away at our humanity, but that's what you find in a poverty-stricken country.

We're all doomed, aren't we?