PARTY POLITICS AND PERSONALITY CAMPAIGN by Taiwo Ibrahim
PARTY POLITICS AND PERSONALITY CAMPAIGN
By
Taiwo Ibrahim
Campaign is heating up and gladiators are working hard to put things in different perspectives. Political scientists would tell you, in their theoretical approach, that parties are formed by people of like minds, sharing ideological views together. That’s their believe. In advanced climes,they can beat their chests “our postulation is right” but in Nigerian context, they seem not to have a correct academic approach. Parties here are just platforms to realise ambitions!
No. Capital NO. You should be proud to associate with your party. For
instance, Peter Obi should be fully associated with APGA, but he isn.t. Little wonder, Charles Soludo, incumbent,
governor of Anambra on the platform of APGA has publicly disowned him.
The funniest political theatre of the moment is that of Bola Ahmed
Tinubu. At every available forum, he would want people to believe that he is
Tinubu and not Mohammadu Buhari, apparently saying his APC representative is
not worthy to be associated with in the present day Nigeria if you desire to
win a presidential election. Ma ko bami.
But Atiku Abubakar can boldly say my party brought GSM, every individual
can own a phone, call his/her relative or business partners for transactions;
worked out a modality for debt cancellation for the country, maintained fuel at
reasonable price for Nigerians, kept the youths at home and so on and so forth.
But the fact remains that you can’t run away from your shadow. It’s your
cross, it’s their cross, it’s their collective cross, they must bear the burden.
May Nigerians never experience again all these hardships under Buhari
government. And may we never experience whoever says he will continue the
legacy of this administration.
Taiwo Ibrahim writes from Ibadan Nigeria
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