By Political Animal.
Restructuring,true federalism, may be good, but if we fail to choose leaders ,who don’t have the capacity and talent to govern,we shall still keep running round the circle.
Definitely, having more control over the levers of State by the State Governors do, may help.But it depends on the quality of leadership in the States.
Selfless leadership never seeks personal benefits.It simply gives his or her best knowing that the rewards are eternal.
Such a leadership can be judged as real, selfless and focussed on development.
How I wish that the so called choices we have been making are even real, independent and consensus choices made by the people.
Unfortunately,the tragedy of our political and electoral system,is that the so-called electoral choices are only a “cocktail of poisons” forced down the throat of the hapless people!
Making the right electoral choices remains a major challenge for the majority of the electorates for many obvious reasons like hardship.
As long as poverty is used as a tool for gaining political power,we have our hands full, in order to let the people know that they are selling themselves into political slavery.
They cannot continue to choose between present survival and future survival for generations.We must make all citizens to understand that they are mortgaging the future of generations unborn even their great, great and great grandchildren.
We must let our people know that based on the pecuniary gains by our politicians, that they are not in a hurry to provide electoral reforms that shall determine one man one vote.
As Nigerians we should get to the point where our votes should count so that we can make leadership changes when we are misruled, whether at the local government level,state level and national level.
I just pray & hope that 🇳🇬’s without ethnic biases should learn from our present suffering as a result of leadership failures,get over past errors in leadership choices and join hands together to get the needed leaders whose consciences are not dead in 2023.
We have been dealt a bad hand by our politicians.So many decades may have been lost.Nigeria can still work.
We have seen Nations that were in worse shape than we are right now but have recovered totally.We just need great and forward looking leaders.
The Political Animal 