Politics has come to be identified as a game with sizzled artistics
\nframing; one game that’s continued to wear intense dramatic outlook.
\nIn active democracies, the dramatic nature of the game continues to
\ninvoke spewing attractions that at each turn of events, minds are
\nincensed with interest and the whole will committed to the ensuing
\nprocess.<\/p>\n
The attractions hovered at each invitation of political excitement is
\nimmensely boggling for the razmatazz and gimmicks that inundate it.<\/p>\n
The case is rapt in Nigeria, where politics has grown from being mere
\ncontest to a fight in the literal sense; with each slate of it
\ngarnished with further whistlings that beat the curious mind.<\/p>\n
Elections are always periods when over-ambitiousness seems to play
\nout. These are moments when people who ordinarily should know the
\ntruth resort to fake inventions clouded by sentiments simply to score
\npoints. Elections in Nigeria are times when anything goes; lies are
\ntold irrespective of the debasement and sentiments whipped.<\/p>\n
As the 2015 elections fast close on, we are once more brought to the
\nexisting norm. Nigerians must be on the guard to secure our minds from
\nraking tantrums that seek to drown our sense of good judgement. We
\nmust be weary of devious appeals and engage our utmost conscience.<\/p>\n
It’s highly imperative we grow out of mendaciousness that has been our
\nhaze in similar past processes. We must show insensitiveness to
\npolitics of emotions; we must straitly grow out of mundane
\ndisillusion.<\/p>\n
The politicians, whenever they seek to achieve political edge over
\ntheir perceived weighty opponents exhibit weak penchants. They
\ndiscourteously descend into campaigns of calumny; they darken the
\nother to look fairer. We must prove not to be part of the schemes.<\/p>\n
In the heat of the electioneering, we hear of spurious claims latched
\nwith castigating strings like GMB is a Muslim, a bigot, a this, a
\nthat. We hear of fear knowingly projected for cheap politics as GMB
\ngoing to sharianize Nigeria if elected; all of which have no
\nverifiable substance save in paper assumptions.<\/p>\n
But how true, how possible? The most annoying is the gullibility
\ntendency of some to acquiesce. Some of us behave puerile and like the
\nbigots we detest in believing such malignity.<\/p>\n
How many have bothered to numb sentiment and cross check those
\ndistorts of history. Has GMB been proven the bigotry he’s accused.<\/p>\n
How inane to accept such deception, such unfounded fear? Nigeria is so
\ndiverse as to be turned into a one religion state.<\/p>\n
How could one think of sharianizing Nigeria and worse still in a
\ndemocracy? That person must be out of tune with governmental
\nprocedures. Even if the president should, does he has such reserved
\npower on legislation; where are the legislators; or would they all be
\nsharianized too?<\/p>\n
And it appears there’s no valid point against GMB save in religious
\ncreations? Why are no issue raised over his personal integrity, which
\nis key for leadership? Who’s afraid of GMB?<\/p>\n
But we must realize that gone are the days when spurrious,
\nunsubstantiable claims shape opinions. Today what make effect are
\nissue-based convictions, campaign of ideas.<\/p>\n
We must prove our insight in the face of demeaning postures that seek
\nto bring in primordial and sundry immaterial posturings into what
\nought to be a committed issue of sound exertion.<\/p>\n
Do not appeal to sentiments especially in the face of critical demands
\nand so refuse to fall prey to any such incitement to bigotry,
\nblackmails and cheap unsubstantiated claims to sway your views in the
\nunfolding political chess.<\/p>\n
It is not and should never be a question of ‘he’s my brother from my
\nmother or my uncle from my aunt’; it should be an issue of ‘my Nigeria
\nand how I want it’.<\/p>\n
Should my brother drive me simply because of my relationship with him
\neven when he doesn’t know how to and where to?<\/p>\n
As a matter of fact, blood or closeness shouldn’t make for fraternity
\nin the march to the nation of our dream; in the art of governance, of
\nleadership which is the propelling, where any form of disingenuousness
\nleads to subsuming cataclysm.<\/p>\n
My brother in leadership is that person, who shares similar passion
\nwith me and who, given the capability, knows how to guarantee the
\nteeming aspirations for a just, corrupt-free, egalitarian society; for
\na country where leadership is effective in prudence, accountability
\nand responsibility; for a Nigeria where security is sacred and
\nemployment availed.<\/p>\n
These are wishes I share with my other well-meaning Nigerian brothers
\nand sisters and which play strategical role in defining our
\nfraternity. Did not Christ himself say it; that my brother…is he who
\ndoes my will?<\/p>\n
As 2015 approaches, we must do away with sentiment; it’s smack of
\narchaic politics. Let’s reason like enlightened people. Let’s ask of
\nintegrity and will to stamp corruption. But one can’t give what he
\nhasn’t.<\/p>\n
In GMB we see them personified, in him is the leadership we need.<\/p>\n
Ahanonu Kingsley.<\/p>\n
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