Greetings my fellow Nigerians who live
at home and abroad. I am a young Nigeria who is concern about things that
happens in this country. For almost six months now the Nigeria’s political
landscape has been very busy with the politician engaging in different
activities to sell their manifestos to the good people of Nigeria. The
struggle for who will occupy the number seat in the country narrowed down to
two strong political party, the people’s Democratic Party and the all
progressive congress.
On the 28th day of March 2015 Nigerians will be going again
to the polls to elect the leaders who are going to pioneer the affairs of the
state for the next four years. As you prepare to discharge your civic
responsibility and create a better future for yourself and the generations
unborn by voting in credible leaders who will be humble enough and have the
sympathy to give a credible representation back to the electorates who have sacrificed
to stand under the scorching sun to give them a the mandate that took them to
the positions they occupy. Please Nigerians I will like you to have an overall
scrutiny and give a second taught before casting your votes, don’t cast your
votes out of desperation. Politics has been the foremost problem that Nigeria
have and it is still eating deep into the fabric of our national growth. We all
know that the reason why most of the politician do everything possible which
sometimes might even warrant the shedding of innocent blood is because the
Nigeria’s political environment is very lucrative. You as a Nigeria has the
power to change the system, your vote will go a long way to bring a change in
our country. Just take a look at some countries which were once a third world country like us in
the likes of China, India, today they are far much ahead of us because
corruption and bad leadership.
Great people of Nigerians are we still
going to seat and watch just a few bad individuals destroy our future and the
future of our great country? Are we going to sacrifice our happiness in the
future just because of a bag of rice? How many bag of rice will they have to
give us in a year for us to be satisfied?
With the way people go about singing aloud and praising one candidate or
the other not because that candidate has what it takes to save them from the
hand of poverty, lack of infrastructure and social amenities but because they
share them money and gifts I begin to wonder what manner of electorates they are.
Election time is here again, a
lot of Abuja based politicians are now finding their way back to their constituencies
and senatorial zones which they have abandoned ever since they ascended the
exalted seat. They are coming back to seek vote from people whom they have
abandoned in the past four years. Now they know how important you are to them,
but the thing that appalls me is that with few money they will load themselves
with which is just a small percentage of the money they have looted from the
national treasury, the same people who were neglected and abandoned will come
singing and clapping for them just to take home with them an amount which is
very small to take care of their daily needs. That is exactly why someone will
claim that he is a senator and after four years he would end of not attracting
a single project to his senatorial zones and constituencies not to talk of
sponsoring a single bill that will bring a relieve to his people. They know
that irrespective of whatever happens that whenever they comes home with some
fresh currency that his past sins will be forgiven immediately. With the way
people complain that the president has not done well, then I begin to ask if
the president has indeed not done well what are the people who are elected to
represent you in the parliament doing to make sure that the president is hold
accountable to discharge his constitutional duties.
The next time you want to talk
about corruption don’t just call only the president. Remember that if at all
the parliamentarians are doing their job efficiently and have decided not to be
corrupt I don’t see the reason why they
will not question or even use their constitutional power to stop the president from being corrupt, but
the truth is that they are all birds of the same feather. In every state in
Nigeria we have a local government chairman, who is the one that is closest to
the people, we also have a member representing constituencies in the federal
House of Representatives and house of assembly, and we also have the senator
representing a senatorial zone and then the governor. If all these leaders in
this hierarchical order are truly discharging their constitutional
responsibility without any compromise I bet you that Nigerians will always
smile because they are truly reaping the dividends of democracy, but lo and
behold all of them are thieves who are looking for one treasury or the other to
loot and have their way.
The fundamental responsibility of a
representative or a parliamentarians is to represent the common interest of the
people in the national or state houses of assembly. That means they are the
once who knows you and knows what you want and also should raise their voice so
that the federal or state government can come to your help. The president or
the governor cannot know exactly what you want without your representatives
bringing it to their notice, have you seen the reason while you should know the
caliber of people you are voting to represent you in the national and state
assembly or even to take the executive responsibility as your governor or the
president.
To give a quality representation every
representative or even the ones in the executive arm should bring themselves so
low to hear the voice of the dying masses and immediately work on alleviating
their sufferings. At least at the end of every month the youth, the market
women, the representatives of each town and village should be meeting with their
representative in the parliament to rub minds together to know what the
pressing problems are and in turn lay it down on the floor of the parliament or
work immediately on it for the people in the executive arm. Do you know that
your representative should have solved the problem of unemployment in your
constituency by simply asking the youths who want to go into business to come
up with viable business plan and he or she will through his influence attract
grants and loans to finance the startups or he or she can even work with
international organization to employ or create a job opportunities for the
teaming unemployed youth.
I believe now that you have seen the reason why I said that Nigerians
should concentrate less on the president and work more on the politicians
closer to them. Thank God that there are some states in Nigeria where credible
leadership are obtainable, I will like the politician with a corrupt mindset to
learn from theses politician that are laying the foundation for good
leadership, transparency and accountability. It is not how rich you are nor how
powerful or influential you are but how many lives have you impacted? How many
people can testify that you are the one who saved them from the hand of
economic frustration and poverty?
My fellow Nigerians as we draw closer to a day when we are going to
decide how our future will be, let us be wise and vote credibly, don’t vote
because a politician is your brother but vote because he or she has what it
takes to bring change to the society. For the youth whom they will be trying to
use to achieve their heinous agenda by all means, I want to remind you that
their own children might be enjoying themselves in places Like London, US and
other great places and you are here trying to defend a man who hates you from
the depth of your heart just because of some token which you are going to go
home with. The money will soon end but the suffering which you have brought
upon yourself for not voting a credible leader will not end.
Therefore, my fellow Nigerian as we troop out to the polls to decide our
future let us vote sincerely and be always ready to defend our democracy, let
us be law abiding and allow peace to reign and in all let us call on God the
creator of heaven and earth to help us to elect credible leaders who are going
to give us an impressive representation.
YOURS FAITHFULLY EMMANUEL
CHIEF EDITOR OF
ODKMEDIABLOG.BLOGSPOT.COM
(A blog which focuses on
entrepreneurship, business ideas and tutorials)
so far PDP is leading with 2, 332, 734 votes while APC has 2, 302,978 votes, though APC won five states and PDP four states. The commission has reconvened to 8pm tonight to allow sufficient time for other states to bring in their results. We are
still expecting results for 27 states. Stay tuned!
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