Chinua Achebe's book, A Man of the People shows that it is easy to be a prophet. Not much has changed with the political class since the 60s. 

If anything, the pathologies of thievery and incompetence have deepened in intensity. A Man of the People ended in a military coup and on a note of hope and promises. In that sense, Achebe was not a prophet; the soldiers were just as bad. 

We may be stuck with these dolts in agbada and their preening, thieving, low-budget enabler-intellectuals.