Nigeria politics is seriously contaminated. Its needs new policy that will put all our politicians under full surveillance. Without doubt, Nigeria democracy is a mess; every political landscapes are being controlled by thugs rather than INEC and highly intelligent people. How can this culture lead Nigeria into a progressive nation?
We must be tough on political crime which has become part of our culture by establishing laws and serious punishment in order to bring sanity to our political system. This can start as early as 2023. We need political crime fighting measures; our legislators need to pass a law that will stop this and possibly punish and ban those who have hands in them. The popular statement from most Nigerians will be; who will make the policy? That is the area that we have cut ourselves off from being inclusive in Nigeria politics. We have the power to force our legislators to make the policy that will work for us, though it may take time, but it can be done.
What is the work of our legislators and how far can our problems reach before we can classify them as chaotic and find possible solutions to them? Our legislators could have made the laws to stop this a long time if they can think of how many citizens who went to their graves through this process. But take this news where you are now and demand for change. Our ability to experience exponential political growth lies in our hands. Our vision should be focus on long-term and we need to invest with no limits on how to achieve that.
When any politician win election by rigging, the constituency and the country will suffer because such person may not have any clear agenda than to steal money, and if there is no development agendas, there will be no progress, though such people may win election, but at the end, the masses will loose. Mind you, political fraud comes with serious consequences
The difficult truth is that rigging may not stop because there is no collective effort to stop it yet. It is the bad people that are better rewarded than the honest people in the present Nigeria. Until we reform our political system, no party in its rightful minds will deliberately stop rigging without paying for it by loosing no matter how good is their manifesto…
The only leaders that can move Nigeria forwards is not the one installed through electoral fraud, but the one that has the good agenda that can contribute to society development and have the potential to develop people who can produce a wide range of advanced technologies. And who can react responsively to human suffering; pushing the boundaries to create intelligent workplace and advance regenerative system to meet the country’s needs.
Rigging election is one of the way the people put inefficient politicians in the office and with inefficient people running the country affairs, there can be no progress. This is bad because people who helped them to rigg election didn’t do it because they are seeking the most efficient politicians to represent them. They did it because of their selfish interest, that is one of the reasons why corruption is spreading and the development is zero. The average voter does not know the consequence of rigging. They are not politically educated enough to know that whatever they want can only come from the politicians who have passion for development not the one that have only appetites for money and power and always sure of winning no matter how badly he has been doing. On the contrary, voters must be trained to know the truth.
And developing high-quality political system designed to work for the progress of the people. Because when it comes to creating value from innovation, the government backed by thugs cannot do this. Therefore, by eradicating thugs from our political system, it will create equal opportunities which will make Nigeria a better place to leave and work.
There is a serious consequences for economic development. Lack of true political competitions is undemocratic. Competition between candidates should drive the outcome towards efficiency. Unfortunately, in Nigeria we don’t care about development. Our poor democratic process has many weaknesses: competition is hampered by poverty and voters’ lower education.
We must beware desperation. With it comes bad decisions – and desperate politician is a dangerous one. This is the point at which self-denial serves to deceive, by dampening down the sense of peril no matter how real it is, and when we fall for it is the moment of greatest risk
Nigerians cannot afford to be going back and forth to electoral tribunal to settle election matters which could have been done perfectly on election’s day and still no one is being punished for wrongdoing. Though the outcome may be good for the deprived or cheated candidates and make them feel like winners, but this demon has sucked time and resources away from almost every other area and draws the affected state back and make them more poorer.
Yes we need a better political structure than thugs invested ones, we need total reforms of all our institutions and new orientation. Development never come naturally. Our leaders must find the best way to design what will make the citizens love and die for the country. As at now many Nigerians are being killed, kidnapped, harassed, molested and they don’t know whether Nigeria is saved anymore. They only experience pains and hopelessness. Not until we can stand up and condemned electoral crime; nothing will change!
