A letter to myself to be published at 50 years of age. First I would like to commend you for how proud you have made me by achieving your long awaited goal of becoming Nigeria's first female president. You kept your promise not to run away to another country. Also, I would like to commend you for being patient and not opening this letter before your 50th birthday. You have certainly grown up and more mature. Even though I know you already know the contents of this letter, I will continue anyway because I am sure that this old memory of yours needs some refreshment. I also hope that you will use this opportunity to review your progress so far in governing Nigeria. While I have a feeling that your ideologies have probably changed, the purpose of this article is to remind you of the ideologies from when you were 17 and compare them to your current ideologies in order to determine your progress thus far in the past. years. When you were 17, your main ideology was nationalism, unlike most of your peers who preferred conservatism or liberalism. But this was quite understandable because at heart you were a nationalist despite the situation your country was in at the time. But since you are the current president, I can certainly say that Nigeria is a better place now. Nationalism, according to Andrew Heywood, is defined as the belief that the nation is the central principle of political organization. As such, it is based on two fundamental assumptions. First, humanity is naturally divided into distinct nations, and second, the nation is the most appropriate and perhaps the only legitimate unit of political government. One of the main reasons why nationalism was your main ideology is because nationalism wasn't just about borders between nations. , included people bound together by similar characteristics such as shared values ​​and traditions, especially a common language, religion, ethnicity, or history. Nations can be seen as cultural entities. According to AD Smith (2010), "nationalism is an ideological movement to achieve and maintain the autonomy, unity and identity of a population for which some of its members constitute an actual or potential 'nation'" (p. . 9). This brings us to the definition of a nation. A nation, according to A. Keywood, is defined as cultural entities, sets of people bound together by shared values ​​and traditions, especially a common language, religion and history, and usually occupying the same geographical area.