Ours is a society with unphantomably thrive-able endowments. But, the trajectory is a people in abundance yet living in penury. Why? The society is under siege due to misplaced priorities. Governance template is either drafted with ethno-religious fundamentals or it is interpreted along a faulty greedy lines of covetuosness.
At times, it is seldom possible to deduce ‘which is what’ and ‘what is which’ because, power mongers had deliberately programmed the overwhelming masses in certain uncladded processes. Such that, they know it is the duty of a leader to provide enabling environment for overall wellbeing of the citizenry, yet, he is not doing that, and he is not to be blamed.
Perhaps, he does little and buttress why he is unable to do more with a million reasons. The citizens buy his reasons wholeheartedly and provide soft landings for his habitually unpopular intentions whenever and however he deem fits. Alas! Those that are willing to accept responsibility and stay true to genuine courses are regarded as enemies. Their chances of getting to office gets slimmer by the day! Whereas, the real enemies flourishes in guise of friends.
An average Nigerian wants social amenities, infrastructure and a working system. (S)he wants to live in a secured society where (s)he can sleep with two eyes closed. (S)he wants to be gainfully employed, go to school and be Educated, he is willing to get all that and more.
But between prospect and reality lies a constricted system abated by men of questionable character, the knee-jerk ideologists who are practically in tune with tyranny and oppression. Between prospect and reality stood a people pecuniarily inclined and deliberately contented with failures. Between prospect and reality is an impotent enabler of leadership not-so-healthy for a society yearning for advancement.
Consequently, in contrast with Michele Jennae’s popular saying—”Where there is a will, there is a Way. Perhaps tomorrow if not today.” Our willingness for a resound landscape is gradually relegating to mere wishes. Every tendencies and predisposition are often challenged by these two categories of people—The informed and the uninformed. The informed are probably a paltry who had availed themselves as willing accomplices of leadership incompetences. They know the truth but they look the other way! At most, they dilute informations on public domain and in the end, they get votes of confidence from the uninformed. In the end, there is a clear cut reasons why a leader doesn’t live up to expectations.
Again, the concept of power separation —The division of government responsibilities into distinct branches to limit any one branch from exercising the core functions of another is, to a far reaching variances misconstrued. For instance, of the three arms of government in Nigeria, the Legislative arm is primarily saddled with law making which are vetoed by the Executive arms and, in finality, validated by the Judiciary.
Ironically, delegated government functions under power separation had been crisscrossed, albeit, a slack in the entire process. That is why both sitting governor and a serving Lawmaker are tipped to focus on social infrastructures. The governor on the other hand can go to bed while the Lawmaker initiates infrastructures and in the end, the state government takes credit. Where the governor fails and the Lawmaker focuses more on his lawmaking business, the lawmaker is a failure but the governor likely to get a nod. But in nutshell, if a Lawmaker focuses more on infrastructures and abandons lawmaking to lie, the society bears the brunt. Because, there is no law to strengthen institutions and hold public office holders accountable—The ordeal of a society plummeted in insecurity, unemployment, looting, stealing, religious chaos, ethnic bigotry, etc.
A functional society require sound Legislative system to promulgate laws to ensure peace and orderliness. A society without good Legislature is vulnerable to vices inimical of its corporate existence. More so, a Socio-economically stable landscape, a lesser crime society, a corrupt-free Nation, good Education, employment, and business opportunities are a function of good Legislative system, vis-a-vis a country with unsound legislative system.
It is needless to say that the system had been infiltrated with the underlisted hiccups. It transcended to our will gradually becoming a mere wish, by rendering supposed succour in the figment of imaginations.
However, as 2023 beckons, event summing to election had revealed an upturn in possibilities that the ‘way out’ is being towed. With emerging professionals in leadership realm, chances are that Kogi East, the state and by extension Nigeria would witness a new dawn.
The just concluded PDP’s primaries attracted some nods across bredths and length. Men of proven intellect and sought humanitarian antecedents emerged as the party’s flag bearers. Famous among them is Dr Victor Alewo Adoji— potential candidate, Kogi East senatorial office 2023.
Read the concluding part in coming days.
– John Paul.
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