Nigeria, May 5 -- I really do wonder whether those great patriots who fought a long and bloody war against British colonial rule and founded the United States of America in 1776, like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and so many others, envisaged what has happened to their beloved country today?

I wonder whether the Pilgrim Fathers and great and wise men of old who, by faith in the Living God, left the Old World, crossed the Atlantic ocean in hazardous conditions and went to the New to establish a new beginning and build a new nation founded on freedom, equality, the fear of God and solid, good, old-fashioned Christian virtues and values would believe what the beloved nation they toiled, prayed for, esta...