A lady with easy virtues that sleeps with many men during her ovulation period might be in troubled waters when she is delivered of the baby. For this reason, every conscionable person strives to be careful, considers making the right choices in love relationships and all other areas of life.
Juxtapose the above with what is plaguing Nigeria’s older political parties. One would likely conclude that the overflowing humongous illicit culture dilution is majorly responsible for their challenges.
Last year, I called the attention of friends on this platform to the mistake of electing former non-aligned returnee opposition leaders from the PDP into the topmost positions in the APC as dangerous. I questioned why any organization would reward its competitors more than the legacy loyal party members that started the party.
I also posited that the ruling party did not seem to have learned from the mistakes of the Jonathan pre-2015 elections, where many influential party members mobilized for his campaign worked for the PDP in the day and the opposition at night. I spoke about the conspiracies of the insurgency in the Northeast used by the opposition against the PDP. Concluding, I said that the law of karma never forgives and that the way the conspirators connived to use the kidnapping of Chibok girls and dangerous political maneuvers might come back on a fuller scale to haunt the then opposition.
Many scorned and laughed. To them, politics is war, and winning at any cost is a fair game. After all, all is fair in love and war (John Lyly’s Euphues). Today, the realities are setting in. I was wiser then, and those who mocked the post are wiser now.
There is nothing wrong with the vigorous pursuit of power. But winning using dirty tactics and blood-stained linens is an abysmal political crunch that might harvest crushing and tearful pains as we are witnessing in our polity.
The must-win mentality devoid of integrity, fair play, and cut-throat competition is killing our political system and, by extension Nigeria. I hope the newer parties would toe the integrity pathways to emplace transparent and accountable internal party democracy for genuinely winning elections. Anything short of that is a circus show.
Except the practitioners change their paradigms now, continuing in the trajectory of the old order might be costly. With what I am seeing, something might give to straighten us. I pray my fears shall be proved wrong.
Happy Sunday. Grace and peace!!!
