By Adamu Aminu.
Nigerians, particularly those whose spirits were not dampened by the unfortunate happenings across the federation, are busy rolling their sleeves up to change their destiny in the forthcoming general elections next year.
This foretells that the era of clinging in the robe of someone’s popularity to win elections is over.
The political opportunists who glued firmly to the then reputation of President Muhammadu Buhari, to secured election victory in 2015 general elections, now have the premonition that their political coffins are due to be nailed down sooner.
The winds of the 2015 general elections under the All Peoples Congress APC, on a flatter of gold catapulted many Dick and Harry to into various political offices.
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President Buhari is a soon-to-be-retired occupant of the Aso Rock villa. By next year around this time he would be in his humble abode – Daura, retiring to his farm or relaxing at his compound picking- teeth, flipping papers, or watching his grandsons and grand-daughters flying kites or cracking cheerful jokes and childish antics to keep him accompany.
It’s noteworthy that, the administration of Muhammadu Buhari comes with a bunch of advantages and drawbacks that serves as lessons to Nigerians, prompting them standing on their toes towards sieving grains from chaffs.
Among the advantages is, the blind loyalty and diehard adherence that the winds of Buhari’s never-again popularity brought, has made introvert-corrupt politicians into governance spotlights, a phenomenon that gives a pleasant and nail-biting experience.
This has also sharpened the wit and awakened the conscience of some, ordinary citizens in realizing that not all glitters are gold. And not every stone is called an emerald.
And more so, the scorching economic depressions which stamped premature facial wrinkles and hasty gray hairs among youth under forty years of age is another advantages derived in this tenure of the gap-tooth president, which sharpened peoples wit to realize that all those political parties [ APC, PDP…] are mere platforms harboring genuine or sheep in wolves skin politicians, by giving them another mandate is a risk which is not far from suicidal.
It is now obvious that, the only benchmark to weigh for winning next year’s general elections would be based on the candidate’s competency, not on personal or party affiliation, but based on the track records of prospective contender’s earlier commitment in serving the people.
Even those tired legs and hands, posed by hell-bent on winning the next election by image-laundering strategies in a soon-to-be-commence electioneering campaigns, should know that Nigerians’ eyes and ears are wide open. “Wallahi wasu sunci taliyar karshe”
Only track records of good performances are the yardstick in securing a fresh or another mandate to a well-deserved aspirant.
The era of dependency on someone’s popularity to win elections is over. Nigerians are tired and have had enough of documented misery which flattens them into an island of despair.
At last, President Muhammadu Buhari still is a free-corrupt leader who doesn’t have a record of self-enrichment in public coffers, no doubt about that, but he’s seemingly paper-tiger encircled by some questionable subordinates that rode on his now waning charismatic popularity in gaining access to various political offices.
Nigerians are tired enough of being frightened by the deadly fangs of insecurity, growing paucity and treading the path, leading to the den of hopelessness.
