By Political Animal.
I am imagining a 2023, when the citizens should confront these politicians when they come campaigning, instead of clapping and hailing them,we, as citizens begin to ask them serious questions.
Can you just imagine what shall be the outcome of such interactions in serious town hall meetings and not the usual jamborees in a stadium?.
Where the citizens are taking them up on serious issues of governance.
Not buying slogans that have not “changed anybody to any level” or “power to the people” that takes power away from the people.
Why is it that whenever we are looking for football coaches, for our national team,
Nigerians are clamoring for the best.
We are always looking for the most competent coach that can help us win the African Cup of Nations and possibly the world cup.
But when we are looking for an Executive President,the issue of competence is forgotten.
Tribe , Religion,Zone,North or South is all we hear.This is a picture of who we are.
I wonder how Nigerians should be expecting miracles from leaders who are very empty and out-of-date in what is going on in the world of technological advancement.
Leaders who hardly read national dailies.Leaders who depend on what their Senior or Junior Special Advisers read and pass the information to them.Leaders who have no mind of their own.
Leaders who will tell you after months of ASSU strike,that they are unaware that the children have been at home.If we lose the schools ,we lose the future.
If care is not taken,one political season,
Nigerians may elect a person with “NEPA BILL CERTIFICATE” as their President. (Anything’s goes in this country , mind blowing though)
We should stop electing those whose qualifications are based on the knowledge of how “Guns work”.
Politics is the art of problem “solving” in particular ways by different political grouping called “Political parties” .Just like in business .
If our leaders are not ready to solve national problems,then they have no business being in that business.
We must tell this truth constantly daily, early with passion,as if we are on Twitter ,like former President of the US,Donald Trump.
Many of our leaders are like people who get involved in a business ,but don’t have the emotional capacity to run such shops.The end result is always “shop close”
Being in business as it is in politics is problem solving.
We must search for problem solvers and elect them as leaders ,as it is in other nations.
The Political Animal 