12/06/2022
Our sentiments sacrifice merit in favour of mediocrity
By Kushi Libi Isaac
"The process that leaders emerge from needs a complete overhaul through education, enlightenment, reasoning and common sense.
This is a country where followers and persons who appeal to our sentiments are considered for offices more than competent people because those who're competent don't appeal to the ignorant, gullible and stock of uninformed electorates that we have in the country.
To be blunt, it is easier for Chris Ngige to emerge as Presidential flag bearer of the major political party than Ngozi Okonjo Iweala; much easier for Tinubu or Aregbesola to emerge than Akinwunmi Adesina.
It is much easier for Dalung and Babachir than Bogoro. It is easier for Kazaure than Jelaini. Much easier for Yerima than Serika. The list is endless.
Until leaders emerge through the ballot by the content of their characters, abilities to deliver, efficiency, effectiveness, proactiveness, transparency, accountability, inclusiveness and other virtues are considered beyond ethnic, regional, and religious sentiments, then our misfortunes just will have begun.
The political arena is not for intellectuals and technocrats; it's for fault lines of identity champions who have deceived the masses.
Needless to say from the new millennium people like Shamsudeen Usman, Chukwuma Soludo, Rukkayatu Alkali, Sanusi Dagash, Olusegun Aganga, Muiz Banire, Frank Nweke, Peter Obi, Donald Duke, Bashir Yuguda are the persons we're thinking of whom should be entrusted with running the affairs of this nation.
NB. Most names I recommended here served under the PDP government and the reason I called them is because their works are there to speak for themselves many years after leaving the corridors of power.
If you have other names from other viable parties, bring it on let's move forward and break away from the clutches of the present leaders who are not in touch with reality."
© Na-Allah Mohammed Zagga