Every election season, Nigerians suddenly become anti-corruption activists online.
Everybody wants “good governance.”
Everybody wants “accountability.”
Everybody wants “change.”
Until their own person enters power.
Then suddenly corruption becomes “smartness.”
The politician who steals billions is evil — unless he built one road in your village. The governor siphoning public funds becomes a hero because he donated bags of rice during Christmas. Nigerians insult corrupt leaders publicly while secretly praying for their own opportunity to “touch money.”
That is the hypocrisy nobody wants to admit.
Nigeria is one of the few countries where people can condemn corruption in the morning and celebrate stolen wealth at a wedding by night. We worship wealth first and ask questions later. Nobody cares where the money came from as long as the bottles keep popping and the convoy is long enough.
And politicians know this.
That is why Nigerian politics feels less like leadership and more like organized survival. Most leaders are not trying to fix the system. They are simply taking turns eating from it while citizens fight themselves online over tribe, religion, and party logos.
The painful truth?
Corruption survives in Nigeria because too many people still secretly admire it.
Not the suffering it causes.
The access it gives.
And until Nigerians stop glorifying wealth without integrity, every election will keep producing the same recycled disaster with a different slogan.
