By Political Animal.
It will be sad if Nigerians should elect as President in 2023, someone who is completely fulfilled in one area, but in another area, is just a sad mess, that we don’t even know where to start after what we have been through.
We have abundant and accomplished people all over the nation and beyond our shores to choose from.
We should have a leader who understands the simple reason why the military is separate from the police.
We need a leader who knows that one fights the enemy of the state ,while the other serves and protects the people.
If we elect somebody who doesn’t understand the difference again ,who will allow the military to become both,then the military becomes the enemy of the state during elections again.
As we listen carefully ,we already can hear the drums of support for some people’s presidential bid,I hope we are not set for a repeat of 2015.?, because Nigeria atimes can be Nigeria.
If we allow some of the people who are circulating on social media to become president in 2023,it means that the lessons Nigerians did not learn after 8 years of this Government ,they will learn it by force.
That should be the saddest news of the century.
Nigerians funnily can be unpredictable.
The sudden barrage of PR for some candidates is becoming too sophisticated for my comfort.
It looks like it has some colour of US political consultants and their fingerprints all over it.
I am not sure Nigerians need another deceptive PR campaign to go down the wrong path again after what we have been through.
The options of candidates to “pick”from, as it is being circulated on social media, automatically makes the outcome a terrible one again.
I must warn!!.
We somehow have tried a mediocre PhD holder,who was timid and satisfied with himself, since he saw big size political “shoes” to wear which he never dreamt of wearing or thought of stepping into growing up.Even when he rose from deputy Governor,to Governor,to Vice President to Acting President to President he was still thinking about how he went barefooted growing up for years .
We have tried an assumed no-nonsense low IQ general ,who was a Petroleum Minister , former Head of State and Head of State again after desperately contesting election on three occasions, Nigerians thought he had something upstairs,we have seen the outcome.
My thought is that we need a no-nonsense high IQ civillian amongst our best.We can find them everywhere in Nigeria and the world. We must dismiss the issue of political platforms if we are serious.
Though Nigeria can be Nigeria without doubt ,but there are some aspirants whose presidential ambitions should be dead on arrival.
People are quick to tell me that election is a game of numbers ,and bragging about that.
If we keep reasoning along this line ,we are set to repeat the mistake of the past years, baring last minute dramas by the two major political parties.
A situation where the parties are watching each other’s back.If party “A” fields a candidate from the North or South for instance , party “P” will also do the same.
These are political considerations with no depth in thinking.This is political abracadabra that has never moved this nation forward.
The only way we can change this nonsense or narrative is for Nigerians to begin early to sensitize the people,to get the numbers of those who desire “real change” to register more ,and get interested in the election process, or we will be doing Twitter analysis again while these dubiously clever politicians are perfecting their trade again.
Their normal power-play.North versus South, Muslims versus Christains has started again .I can bet you that they are not sleeping again.They have gone back to their nocturnal habits as political animals to “GRAB POWER”
I foresee a major political crises by next year ,and this crises will open up many people’s un-informed eyes about politics in Nigeria.
My prayer is that the crises should not lead us to make the same mistake of 2015,
but rather lead us to having a first-grade President in 2023.
Help us God.
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