Afrigather “Politicians are the identical throughout. They promise to construct a bridge even the place there isn’t any river” – Nikita Khrushchev
I’ve intentionally narrowed this write as much as cowl Nigerian Politicians as a result of all politics is native and with it political behaviour. The one widespread denominator is that energy unmasks a person or put it brutally, energy corrupts a person.
Sure, entrust a person with energy after which who he actually is in contradistinction to who he claims or seems to be. You will see that out that the surface doesn’t match the within.
I don’t belief politicians or anyone exhibiting political behaviour. It is because they put on two and even three faces. Politics, based on Ambrose Bierce “is the conduct of public affairs for personal benefit “. You actually can’t maintain them to their guarantees. That’s as a result of, with all due respect, Nigerians are docile, they’ve failed to carry politicians accountable to their guarantees. That perspective emboldens politicians to be corrupt and act with impunity believing that heaven won’t fall.
Allow us to shortly look at the character of energy as a result of energy is a monster, probably the most misunderstood idea or topic in social science. There are principally two sorts of energy; political energy and non secular energy that are diametrically opposed to one another.
Political energy is the capability to coerce others, in open or secret, overtly or covertly to do one’s will. To be efficient, this capability should reside within the place or workplace similar to kingship, presidency, or cash. Consequently, political energy has no relationship with goodness, intelligence, or knowledge of the particular person on who political energy resides. That explains why very depraved, silly and evil folks have occupied political place on this nation and elsewhere on the planet. In our case, well-known touts or “agbero” have climbed to the place of energy.
Many politicians in Nigeria depend on energy arising from possession of cash which they use to deprave these in political worth chain throughout elections. They fail to comprehend that energy resides in cash not the person which is why political energy obtained with cash energy doesn’t final. To succeed as a politician counting on cash, you should put your self ready to all the time have cash to throw about to be related. That is the foundation of corruption in politics.
The best option to battle corruption in Nigeria is to take away cash from politics and deal with the integrity, competence and capability of the politician whereas holding political workplace previously. It’s folks with out verifiable monitor file that play cash politics.
As a result of energy resides in cash not the politician, retiring Governors and legislators pay themselves fabulous severance bundle and pension for all times so that they proceed to have cash to have interaction in politics. That’s the reason many politicians fail to be related when out of energy as a result of they depend on cash which they not command.
Current improvement appear to counsel that the technique of eradicating cash from politics and deal with the integrity competence and capability of the politician has been efficiently employed by a political occasion that doesn’t give “shishi” in mobilizing supporters . The truth is the motion is starting to take root in Nigeria as a result of the youths have keyed into the imaginative and prescient of a brand new Nigeria the place the son and daughter of no physique can change into anyone going ahead.
That brings us to non secular energy. This resides fully throughout the often ordained minister and has nothing to do with the capability to coerce others however coercion may manifest not directly within the type of undue affect. That’s the reason within the construct as much as the 2023 basic elections politicians had been busy trooping into spiritual homes to acquire help and endorsement of the spiritual leaders in order that the congregation will be influenced to forged their votes for them.
Folks of nice non secular energy could also be rich and typically occupy excessive political positions of management however they might be poor and missing political authority. That’s the reason the clever spiritual leaders with integrity who know their political weak spot chorus from asking members to vote for any political occasion.
The facility of cash in politics in our clime has weakened just about all political and non-political establishments. Authorities companies with legal guidelines establishing them which specify their capabilities have been swayed by cash to behave or refuse to behave on the powers vested on them by statute by politicians.
The chief perpetrator is the judiciary that had the authorized energy to overturn electoral outcomes and the method subvert the desire of the folks by passing spurious judgement declaring a loser with much less in style votes to a winner on technicalities. There are well-known circumstances, particularly in Imo State below the current jurisdiction that don’t require repetition right here.
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The time has come for Nigerian voters to rise towards impunity of electoral officers and companies of presidency that act opposite to the rule of engagement. We are able to name them “the Folks’s Police” as a result of the legislation that established these companies is a public doc.
These legal guidelines spell out what the companies or Authorities officers can do. The “Folks’s Police” will name their consideration to dereliction of responsibility and ask them to not step away from the foundations of engagement. Had this establishment been in place, Prof Yakubu would have been stopped from announcement of voting outcomes that was completely different from what polling brokers obtained on the polling cubicles. There would have been no want for him to impudently inform aggrieved events to” go to court docket “.
Lastly, an x-ray of the behaviour of typical Nigerian Politicians or political class is that they’re very egocentric. They pursue their very own slim curiosity not the nationwide or curiosity of the group they signify, on whose votes they climbed to energy. They run the rat race for wealth, energy and status. They exist just for themselves and so they consider others solely by way of getting issues out of them and dwelling at their expense. They overlook that there’s God and we are going to all die sooner or later and face judgement.
Egocentric politicians have no idea that energy, status and wealth could possibly be acquired however not life or certainly good well being. A brand new Nigeria is feasible however these in political positions want a rethink and align themselves with actuality.
