Until we take back our power in our struggling democracy, instead of surrendering it to the money and “structures” of political oligarchs, we will keep complaining about bad governance. We’re the voters, therefore na we be the “structure”, therefore na we suppose decide!
Good political organization matters. Any serious candidate must work on that.But that’s a different thing from us as people suspending what must be our serious judgment about who is the better CANDIDATE for an office, and then voting for corrupt, incompetent life time politicians
because they have “structure”. And then complain that our country is in bad shape. Who put it in bad shape? Us, in the beginning, by allowing the wrong persons to be at the helm. By our decisions, or the reluctance to decide in favor of competence and vision.
By not voting because “our vote won’t count”, which allows the bad guys all the space to rig. Escapism won’t get us good governance. We the people must engage in the political process. Now, we have seen improvements in the new electoral law (if President @MBuhari signs it into
law) allowing electronic transmission of collated results (it helped a lot in Anambra election last weekend) and direct primaries in political parties. These improvements are coming because Nigerians fought for them. If we had all sat back and accepted the “inevitable” power of
“they” (will “they” allow this or that outcome?) we’d still have the bad, old situations. We have more power than we realize. Let’s DECIDE to use it. And then use it. Check am o!
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