A country of optimists, they do this in the hope that it will always be this way. Especially those on a dole. For instance, In Ekiti state, the APC asked muslims not to accept rams from Fayose, governor and a christian. And being Nigeria,and thus really not about core beliefs,they accepted the rams.
In the Southwest, the Northern Muslims look at the "infidels" as they buy cattle and rams from them. It's all about money ,right?
Later in the evening, after too much alcohol, there would be more rapes, deaths and sundry other ailments that plague a poor nation like Nigeria.
In Auchi, Edo state, bars and hotels will sell more today. The same people will go to a certain Apostle Sulaiman on Sunday wondering what happened to their lives.
In the North, it'd be red rice and the zoo with the fear of explosions hanging in the air.
Nigerians adapted to this unique ability to laugh in the face of abject misery perhaps because moments of national triumphs are few and far between;and usually via football tournaments.
The vertex of that was in 1996 in Atlanta where they dethroned monoliths like Argentina and Brazil to win its first Olympic gold medal. That sort of glory is also almost gone.
They also, in the past, enjoy moments of joy each time a government was overthrown. Those too are gone. By Monday, next week, the hangover would have gone, wrecks on the road reconciled, bills and school fees would yawn.
Like R.Kelly's Happy People, they'd console themselves that it will soon be Christmas.Even the Muslims.
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