It has now become boring for me to read about one politician or the other cross-carpeting to one rival party or the other. Every single day on air! Ah! What is the thing with our politicians in the country and trends? First it was the open letter trend, now it's the cross-carpeting trend? What exactly are we achieving with all this?
Nothing! I say, Nothing! Absolutely nothing. I think we need to redefine politics and leadership to ourselves. Now in case you're from the moon let me break it down for you, this is 2014; and we are only a few months away from the 2015 general elections. A lot of 'underground' work is happening right now, and that's why this whole cross-carpeting thing doesn't come as a surprise to me, but the frequency at which it's happening is too just much.
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What do we want for ourselves as a nation? I was at the future awards Africa, award night last year when the executive governor of Rivers State in giving his speech that night re-iterated what he said a few weeks before that night, in line with the followership problem in Nigeria. He said, and I quote with a little paraphrasing "you people elect us to go there and chop. So why won't we chop when nobody checks us? If you know politicians who are stealing money, chase them! Stone them!" We all laughed that night as we listened to the governor speak, and it ended there. But his radical and sarcastic statement pretty much summarizes the followership problem we have in Nigeria.
Most times we blame the leadership for our woes, but it's still us who will put people in power based on ethnicity and discrimination not necessarily credibility. It's still us who will still vote these people into our power, still us who will complain, and it's still me who will come back after the 2015 elections to write a blog to remind us of this funny cycle--i hope not.
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