They are mainly the beneficiaries of all manner of exclusive privileges and other unimaginable concessions for their businesses in Nigeria without reciprocal gesture for the benefit of the nation.
Through deliberate and favorable government policies and sweetheart deals meant for corporate Nigeria, they have high jacked the monetary and fiscal regime in the country.
They are the main beneficiaries of the privatization of government assets and enterprises at give away prices and have outright monopoly in all the critical sectors of the economy today unchallenged by any competition.
They have equally high jacked the political process from the background and are so far determining the political outcomes all over the country.
They have already been around every government and are everywhere doing everything together with the previous and present governments of the day. So, they are already part of whatever is wrong with the present arrangement.
The national rebirth they are talking about has already been achieved by them through national consensus of their interests. They only want to consolidate it by transforming from being kingmakers to becoming the kings themselves.
The only way they can succeed with this plan is by finally seizing power through the back door and hence the idea of 2022 Committee.
Yes, the politicians have failed the nation but it is more a function of systems failure occasioned by unscrupulous and unpatriotic elites and not lack of good ideas to move the nation forward. And these bunch of free riders are not any different and definitely not the answer either.
True, it is time for a new beginning through dialogue by engaging all the relevant stakeholders across the country with a view to changing the current arrangement and not just a few self selected individuals whose collective interests is not representative of the nation.
There is a need to renegotiate the present arrangement, discard and change the system because it is not working for the majority of the country except a few privileged and powerful ones.
The different agitations as reflected in the various flash points all across the country are enough indications that there is mass discontent in the country as a whole and that is sometimes even giving criminality some legitimacy.
These issues cannot be solved by a tea party arrangement where some select few elites who are actually alienated from the masses will sit down and decide the fate of a nation like Nigeria.
It must be all inclusive and nationally representative affair if the outcome is to be acceptable and the new arrangement will be workable in a diverse country like Nigeria. My take!!!