LEARNING is one of the
most difficult things in the world, particularly when it requires change which
is unfortunately fortunate to be the only constant thing globally…
The difficulty is not
seeing the change or knowing the act of the change, but facing the reality that
the end of the illicit gains from the old ways which are always unprogressive,
selfish, impositional and back-door arrangements have come. Euphemistically,
this is referred to as “shortcut”, which is not available in the dictionary and
encyclopedia of success, for if attained through “shortcut” it will always be
temporary, counter-productive and disastrous for the beneficiary, on who the
wrought of God is inevitable.
GOD demonstrated His
hatred and deep anger against ‘shortcut’ when he decided to say “come let Us
make man in Our own image…” though He has all the powers to command them to be,
just the way He commanded other things like trees, oceans, etc. to be and they
were. He didn’t condemn Cain for offering substandard sacrifice to Him but for ‘cutting
short’ the life of his brother, Abel. These examples are Divinely documented in
The Holy Books – The Bible and The Qur’an.
In our academic setting,
Mathematics and English language are the basic requirement to take on any major
discipline and in most situations, one is required to apply a “step-by-step”
approach to arrive at the right answer and that does not still reflect
“details” saying no to shortcut, those who may steal at the final answer.
My area of interest today
is POLITICS which has to do with the distribution or power to allocate
resources, which ideally are expected to lead to progress, but where a man or
woman attain this POWER through the shortcut derogatorily called ‘POLITIRCKS’
how do you expect anything good or successful from such. Let us take a good
look, even at the tribunals handling political cases in Nigeria, those who have
had their terms cut short for coming through POLITIRCKS has always had nothing
to show for it their stolen term in office.
The problem starts with
the way we jump onto the Political Podium in Nigeria. Let’s cast our minds back
to 1999 when we were bundled into what the Government then called POLITICS thus
throwing up half-baked educated people, in experienced public servant,
questionable school graduates and lay-abouts who had nothing to lose by jumping
in the boat to do politics. Those who learn bitterly in the reputable and
unforgettable June 12 were scared to come on board again, responsible men and
women were not ready to leave whatever they were doing to involve themselves in
another gamble that the likes of Babangida can send down the drain. This gave
birth to POLITIRCKS, which ignorantly and stupidly, some people shamelessly
call POLITICS!
Professor Attahiru Jega,
the INEC chairman can only be significant to Nigerians and indeed the world by
ensuring that the real definition of politics be meaningful to Nigerians and
the world willing to pick from it, the man need show that a black man,
particularly can also play by the standard, damning the consequences. So far,
Jega has refused some POLITRICKTIANS into public office, allowed POLITICIANS
and stopped the Lawyers’ sleeplessness at the Tribunals thus giving Nigerians
some respite and concretizing the emerging politically stable Nigeria. Let me quickly
add that more need be done.
It is obvious that Nigeria
and indeed Nigerians can no longer afford to face the reality that POLITICS
have come to stay and as such the need to get out the CROOKS from amongst those
who play the game. That is why Clarkson Eddberg disagreed that politics is not
dirty but the “players” who may choose to be dirty or don’t understand any
language other than “dirt”.
As a social scientist, the
factor inherent in change is “failure”, where it becomes difficult for he or
she that needs to change his or her evil ways, they fear being seen failures if
they change. The failure implied here is that they have to stop telling lies,
deceiving the people, falsifying information or data about people,
intentionally damaging people’s character, looting, slander, killing,
blackmailing, being diabolical, covetousness, and other things which God and
nature detest. Ordinarily, these are things their temperament cannot
accommodate.
On the part of the people
(Nigerians), we honestly have started reacting to such people by voting them
out or refusing them to get on board through our thumbs when we go to the polls.
That was indeed a long overdue opportunity Nigerians have anxiously waited for.
The truth is that this new
set of few politicians who have found their ways to offices courtesy Jega’s new
electoral approach, are now dissociating themselves too, little wonder His
Excellency, Capt Idris Wada Ichalla publicly dissociated himself from the
rumour making the rounds that he has endorsed the LOs to be the next Chairmen
in Kogi State, we sincerely observed too, that the PDP Chairman in Kaduna State
went on air to denounce that Government was backing anybody for the
Chairmanship slots to be filled in Kaduna State come 1st December 2012.
Earlier, Governor Fashola
was embroiled in a deep crisis with his leader for forcing down the throat of
the State Electoral body the announcement of some losers as winners even when
they are to the favour of his party!
Gradually, real men are
appearing in Nigeria politically and we do hope that with the spirit of the
fair shift in the 2012 National Award in Abuja on Monday 17th September, things
will change; the award is beginning to take cognizance of good governance and
real contributions which included core civil servants, private investors, film
makers and others.
Soon POLITICKTIANS will
fade away like fake smoke in the air and POLITICIANS will emerge; just wait!!!
Dayo Onibiyo
Jeun Je Se
0803410463
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