19/12/2025
Our Representatives Are in Need of Prayers — Because the Hijackers of the People’s Mandate Are Among Us
There was a time Nigerians feared faceless criminals in distant forests.
Today, fear has taken a new shape—well-known faces, well-dressed, seated in chambers meant to protect the people.
The danger is no longer outside.
It is institutional.
From tax reform padding to quiet inflation of campaign spending, Nigerians are left confused and betrayed. What was debated and agreed upon on the floor somehow returns to the people as something harsher, heavier, and crueler.
This is not governance.
This is mandate hijacking.
When Representation Becomes Organized Self-Interest
How does a people’s law become a private document?
Who alters national decisions after the gavel has fallen?
Who profits when suffering increases?
While citizens battle hunger, insecurity, and collapsing services, their representatives debate how much public money should be spent to return themselves to power.
Campaign funds rise.
Living standards fall.
Hope evaporates.
If this is leadership, then who is being led—and to where?
The Politics of Indifference
The tragedy is not that solutions do not exist.
The tragedy is that those entrusted with power refuse to apply them.
They know what to do:
Cut the cost of governance
End padding and backdoor insertions
Prioritize food security, electricity, and jobs
Restore dignity to wages and pensions
But doing so would starve the very system that feeds them.
So instead, suffering is normalized, excuses are recycled, and the people are told to endure—again.
A Special Name for a Special Betrayal
These are not criminals hiding in the dark.
These are Mandate Hijackers—
Individuals elected to serve, but who now serve only themselves.
They do not kidnap people.
They kidnap hope.
They do not steal wallets.
They steal futures.
And that is a deeper crime.
Why They Need Prayers
Our representatives need prayers not because the job is difficult,
but because conscience has become optional.
Power without empathy is dangerous.
Law without justice is oppression.
Representation without responsibility is occupation.
Final Warning
History is watching.
The people are learning.
And hunger has a way of ending political careers faster than opposition parties.
Nigeria does not need louder speeches or bigger campaign budgets.
It needs leaders with integrity, restraint, and fear of God.
Until then, the people will continue to pray— For relief from hardship, For the return of true leadership, And for liberation from those who hijacked their mandate.