Can Nigeria be re-invented?

Earlier,
it was accepted that re-inventing means to look at a creation afresh with a view to fabricating a better entity. Aiming for a better entity is an admission that the earlier creation may have been done badly or the resultant entity (in this case a nation), has not achieved an acceptable or desirable format.

What would be the acceptable form for a nation?

A nation may not necessarily consist of homogeneous land-mass, a homogeneous people or of a homogeneous antecedental experience. It is enough that its constituent entities have resolved to stay together, no matter the nature of their initial constitution. All that is required would be a determination on the part of its founders to forge a common destiny that would engender a common expectation in its citizens from the nation.

The word, forge, implies a creation that originates in a furnace and evokes a process that is irreversible; that gives a product that is a compound mixture and in which the characteristics of its constituent elements may have been largely lost for ever, or significantly modified. This means that for a geographical expression or a country to attain nationhood, it must acquire a homogeneous mien, visible to the world at large and available within the hearts of its citizens. It means that its citizens must think totally as the nationals of that country instead of primarily as members of their ethnic enclave and distantly as citizens of that nation.

It is the structure and the grundnorm of a nation that imbues that suffocating feeling of allegiance in its citizens, that unmitigated patriotism in them as would make them defend its name and its interest unsparingly.

America, a witches' brew of disparate entities, origins and political experiences, has continued to bestride the world, not so much for any innate power, but for its resolve at its formative stages to divest itself of external influence and chart its own course; it crafted a unique constitution based on an analysis and a distillation of its previous experiences moderated by the universal outlook of its founding fathers. They presented a bastion of freedom to the world at large and bade all come to its welcoming bosom. Furthermore, they were imbued with a conscience to recognise that all men are created equal and have worked assiduously to define man as it should be, not as their fathers told them. That is the strength of the American dream; that is what has driven them to fulfil their destiny. That is the secret of their success.

That is the secret Nigeria needs to re-invent itself but can Nigerians muster that guiding spirit? Please give your opinion!