Road Map: How To Elect The Best Leadership for Nigeria
In this post I'm going to align 5 things each of us must do to ensure we get the right leadership in Nigeria.
1. Encourage Good Credible Leaders to run for office.
It's not about voting out an incompetent government, it's about finding the best government for our office. The number one problem is that many good credible people don't want to run for office because they think it is a dirty game. Good people don't want to partake in electoral voting because they think all the people running for office are dirty. We can fix this. Support good credible people to run for office and turn out to vote them in. Show up at their place of work with placards asking them to run for office, send them your good wishes on social media with hashtag run for office, Walk up to them at social gatherings and tell them you believe in them. Etc
2. Demand a Debate. Nigeria is the only country since the turn of the 21st century that sees people who turn up for national election debates lose the elections while the one person expected to show up but declined wins. We have to stop this trend. If we desire excellent leadership, we must hold our contenders accountable we must listen out for their fluency, dedication, rhetorics, lies, truth, executability of goals stated, objectivity, inclusivity, Passion and most importantly proposed policies. They must slug it out on stage, point for point, question for question, policy for policy. We must hear how they intend to fulfil their electoral promises and the policies they would put in place to make that happen.
3. Ignore Promises, Scrutinize their intended Policies: Any candidate who gives you a bogus promise such as the popular I will give you electricity, raise salaries and wipe out unemployment e.t.c should be ignored. Demand to know what policies they would put in place to ensure this happens naturally under their government, and how long it should take before we start to see the results. For example: How will they fund electricity? Will they tax us more? How long will it take to build a mega power plant? Can and would we build small ones while we wait for the big ones to be completed? Where do we source the funding? Will they declare war on a small country to get funding for salary increments? Will they build new companies in Nigeria and with which money? Or will they tackle security problem so foreign investors can feel safe to set up shop within our borders that would employ our people? Will they reduce population so there can be more jobs for those in the country? How will they do this? By ensuring our borders are locked to illegal economic immigrants? Or Promoting Genocides? Would there be policies that support our economic growth? Would we see the advent of a massive psychology reform policy to reduce crimes and sectarian violence? Would there be policies that encourage indigenous inventions and protection of intellectual property so our brightest and best inventors reap the benefit of their hard work?
4, Do not accept Money or Bribe Items to Vote Each time you are paid to vote you are getting paid to sell your family and country to untold hardship. All the money they invested in campaign and paying people like you to vote has to be recouped with profitable return on investment afterwards. Where do you think they will pay themselves from? Their salary? Or your pensioners salary? It's the money for your roads and bridges they would use to build Palacial Government Houses and their Tollgates on your bad roads, Money for your hospitals they would use to treat themselves and family abroad, Money for your schools they will use to train their own children abroad, Money for your Infrastructure they will use to build personal Hotels, Casinos and Refineries Abroad. Money for your Power Stations they will use to buy Chinese generators and import them to sell to you (the countries they import generators from don't even use generators themselves). Money for your salaries they will use to sponsor their next campaign and offer you bag of beans to vote again. They take bags of rice to your village chiefs who give you a cup of rice not worth 500naira and you sell your vote in exchange for over -50 million deficit owed in pension money.
Open your eyes, When you accept money to vote, don't expect free development, you would pay back with outrageous interest rates for whatever you want to use in the country. The money for your security is what they will use to pay police to protect themselves, their family mansions and their convoys while they manhandle and exthort you and your innocent children, fathers and mothers, uncles and aunts, brothers and sisters on the highway. You'll eventually still have to pay private security to guard your communities because you sold your security for a cup of rice. The money they should use to build and expand national establishments that would create jobs, is what they use to buy up exsting ones in the name of privatisation and create monopoly for their private businesses where they will employ only their relatives and kinsmen. Where do you end up with your engineering degree? On the streets with a basket on your head full of cloth mending apparatus.
5. Protect Your Votes Resist any attempts of persons in your area plotting to distribute bribes and items to influence votes. You do not need a gun or bullet proof to do this, start today to form youth rallies in your area with other like-minded and meaningful Nigerians. The agenda of these rallies would be to gather the elderly, young and vulnerable into classrooms before the elections. Enlighten them with intent to Empower their mindset, tell them to demand these things in the other points above and get them to resist being used as thugs or mercenary voters. Let this be done in a peaceful manner remind them that the reward for good leadership is greater and lasts longer than the rice they would eat today only to deposit in a pit latrine for years.
There are many more things we should demand when we cast our votes next year. You can add yours. Let's take this country to the top.
These things should be done on all levels not just for presidency, because even a good president would be powerless when surrounded by bad constituency reps, governors and LGA chairpersons. Youths especially have a role to play here. Do these and in just a couple of years, never-do-wells would not find a platform to run for office
Elect the best for your country and nothing but the best.
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