BY
AGBO EGBA GODWIN
Credible election is an election conducted free off any form malpractice, acceptable by the voters, other countries and the losers convinced. It is the backdrop of this credible election that has caused Nigeria the serious set back since the inception of democracy in Nigeria and she has been losing billion and trillion of naira to those distorting the act. Absence of credible election has so many set back that cannot really be measured. One, it lead to waste of enormous resources. The desperate politicians waste millions of naira bribing the concern officials and lavishing great deal of money on their sycophants in order to win. It also leads to dreaded rivalry, enmity and destructive criticism among the politicians. All their productive energies that should be used for nation building are used against the incumbent government to sabotage their tenure even if the government had good plans, and that always result to incessant strikes, religion crisis inter ethnic clashes, tribal sentiment, militancy etcetera.
They go on radio and television stations, organizing press conference and seminars criticizing destructively with their oratory endowment starting up angers of Nigerians weakening their zeal and spirit of nationalism, discouraging and making them putting on lackadaisical attitude towards nations building. The beneficiaries of this ill election on the other hand knowing fully well that they come to power not by the people but by money and their sycophant who do not care about whatever they are going to do to the country but what is going to enter their pocket at the end’’ will never have the interest of the masses and the nation at heart at all, they were not voted for by them and that made them to abuse the power by the means of fraud, bending and breaking people’s life to suit their ostentatious life. Those who don’t share in their ill views are ruthlessly suppressed while their loyalist sycophant are lavishing rewards with high position making the trend to continue to the lowest and you hardly find honest and integrity in offices because it is dishonest act that pave one’s way into office, so if you are not dishonest by giving bribe or do what they ask you to do, you hardly get a job, therefore it becomes practically impossible for any honest and integrity person to get job. Honesty and integrity is forced into extinction and the popular saying “This is Nigeria” is believes and applied by almost every one.
Those people will always remain official because they know how to manipulate and remain in it or fix their loyalist that can be able to service them with billions of the nation’s heard earned money. The poverty, kidnapping, thurgery, the assassinations, the illegal possessions and circulations of weapons are all rooted to ill election. The effect of this election is too great to be mentioned. Credible election on the other hand is healthy to democracy. It fosters rapid development and peaceful coexistence. If achieved, then Nigeria has laid a solid foundation for development and economic take off. And this can only be achieved when there is credible election, and credible election brings about healthy competition among the politician. In economics, one of the characteristics of perfect market is healthy competition. If product of a producer is not up to standard or meet up with the current market demand, the producer and his or her product would be force out of market by other standard product. Credible elections create perfect political market. Bad politicians would be forced out of them and their band wagon and those in power would serve well for more power to be entrusted to them.
God has mysteriously brought in an INEC boss who is not ready to stain his profile or lease the country to those politicians anymore, but see the positions as an opportunity to serve the country well and add more good name to his personality and he is therefore determine to conduct free and fair election that would create this perfect political market. My fear is that, however determined he is, he would not achieved it alone. All of us have been affected one way or the other by this ill election and we have cried enough for good governance that will deliver the dividend of democracy and free of corruption. The opportunity has come for us to make that happen because we have gotten the head that is in support of that. This is now a plea for all lovely people of Nigeria to sacrifice anything we are going to gain from this ill election that has caused Nigeria things that can hardly be regained. The election that has given our dear country bad names in the world, the election that has made leader of some countries who are not qualified to make comment about our father father land making ill and silly recommendation for us, the election that has ridicule the name of our dear and only country among her contemporaries. Let us please sacrifices them all for the election. Some people have sacriefied their life for just little thing.
Why cant we sacrifices things that may not even cause us our life for our father land and make the habitable for the next generation. Remember, Nigeria we are mutilating and butchering today is permanent while we are just temporal. Let us support Professor Atahiru Jega and witness good Nigeria in our life time and leave legacy behind for the posterity
Source: Recorded live from FRCN daily commentary
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