In a country rated as one of the
poorest in the world with over 80% of its citizens living below one dollar a day
and millions dying of poverty related diseases; politicians busy themselves
exchanging millions of dollars for just defecting from one party to another.
Political landscape of Nigeria
has been witnessing series of accusations and counter accusations, ranging from
allegations of corruption, flying of letters, to missing billions of dollars
that is not accounted by NNPC. It baffles common knowledge on how billions of
dollars that more than double national budget can disappear and not accounted
by NNPC; yet instead of government to investigate and bring people involved to
book, it is busy blaming CBN Governor for mistake in the reporting of the
actual missing figure.
Though the above NNPC cases is
under investigation, other events are unfolding in the polity with allegations
and counter allegation that Lawmakers are being bribed millions of dollars to
defect from one political party to another. What a flagrant display of shame in
a country where over 60% of youths are unemployed, with more that 20% of the
remaining 40% underemployed.
It is now clear to all Nigerians
that the interest of these politicians is centred on self aggrandisement and
not in the interest of the poor and defenceless Nigerians. If not, how do APC
for example convinces Nigerians that former member of PDP defecting to APC
automatically become a progressive? This whole scenario (party defection) is
now seen as an end in itself (Lawmakers selfish interest) and not a means to an
end (National development).
Power struggle between PDP and
APC has now taken new dimension with Lawmakers seeing it as lucrative and
cashing in millions of dollars just to defect to the party of the highest
bidder at the expense and deceit on Nigerians. Yes…deceit of Nigerians because
defection from one party to another does not guarantee development nor does it
represent a new way of doing things. This is because there is no ideologicaldifference between PDP and APC nor are there any new thing APC can do different
from what PDP is currently doing. However the only difference between PDP and
APC is just that one is struggling to keep, use and maintain power while the
other is trying to capture power and simply do nothing different from what the
ruling party is doing.
While
politicians are busy squandering the common wealth of the country, we shall
continue to advocate for Good Governance and enlighten and or empower Nigerians
and the world on why there is no meaningful development in the country until
our voice is heard.
God keep Nigeria.
