A CONFERENCE OF FOOLS - FASEYIKU

I have followed with keen interest but a detached commitment the deliberations and also the ways and manners of delegates at the on-going "national conference" taking place in Abuja, Nigeria. I have interest in it because I am waiting (perhaps hoping) that one might, for once, be proved wrong in my pessimism about Nigeria. So my interest is keen but it is of a pessimistic perspective. 

My commitment is detached because the easiest thing to do in Nigeria is go backwards rather than move forward. 

I have always joked that if you put just two eminent and highly intelligent Nigerians together and they have been working unified, just bring religion or ethnicity into the equation and you lose everything. And it is the same thing we are about getting from the national conference.
In an age where we have seen the quality of life of Nigerians plummet to an abysmal low and it has been proven that a most disproportionate percentage of our national patrimony is expended as cost of government, this "national conference of jesters" have recommended the creation of an additional eighteen (18), yes eighteen, new states, in Nigeria.