THE CHANGE WE REQUESTED AND THE
CHANGE WE GET
When it
comes to politics, I don’t have an idea. my concern is how much rice and petrol is but it seems
politics is affecting this and everything looks like Nigeria has changed while I
was sleeping.
So I had
this interview with a political analyst
and I love his analysis.
The interview:
Sir,can I meet you?
Yes my name
is Saliu Akeem Dennis,I am an Ifaki-Ekiti born social and political analyst,I have
my B.SC political science from EKITI STATE UNIVERSITY and my M.SC in view. i am
well known as Candid.
Mr Candid can you tell us who a
political analyst is
Yes, a
political analyst is the such that discuss, analyze, identify political problems and as well
establish the considered solutions to those problems already Identified.,like I
said, I am a trained political scientist which makes me a doctor of society and
political difficulties therein.
What can you say as a political
analyst about the change we want and the one happening now in NIGERIA, has anything changed?
To start
with, what is change? The little definition of ‘change ‘ that I know is to make someone or something
change from the previous, now the big
question is has anything changed in NIGERIA? You see the single thing I have
seen that has changed is the party at the federal, the change from PDP to APC.
The change we requested was the attitudinal and behavioural change that could eventually transform to
institutional change, not until we all change our behaviours towards
bribery, corruption, election rigging, political normadism, political
clientism, misappropriation of public funds, abdication and dereliction and all
sorts we are having. The institution won’t change and if our institution is as
bad as we are seeing and we expect to see change overnight, it is like just trying
to build castle in the sky.
What are the possible solutions to the problems we are facing as Nigerians?
As related
to what I said earlier,individual mindsets must change towards all these
self-inflicted predicaments, look I am a behaviorist and in strong terms, I can
say emphatically that Nigerians must change their approaches .
Let me give
you an instance, if you meet Americans in Nigeria, they adhere strictly to the
Nigeria constitutions, no matter how provoked or frustrated they are, they would
prefer to call the corps this is because it is their way in America. Now imagine
a Nigerian in California being provoked, maybe after engaging in physical assault he would
remember he is in California.
Let me give
you another example,A Russian left with many ballot papers is expected to cast his vote alone and will do
just that,unlike a Nigerian that will cast all the remaining votes in favour of
his/her candidate, this is what I mean by our attitude that must change.
What is your view on the present
economic recession?
Either our
economy has recessed or depressed,it is a consequence of over concentration on
a source of revenue generation which is petroleum,as a good student of
political economy,the workload on our petroleum sector is much.whereas other sectors
like agriculture are financially malnourished. What I could suggest as the most desideratum
solution is diversification of our economy, let Nigerians veer away from
petroleum to their sectors.it is
presently expedient the federal government revamp our agricultural
sector.
What is
the future of Nigeria politics in years to come?
Today’s Nigerian
democratic system is bad and if it continues,the future scares me.our
democratic system via political system as a lot of shortcomings
1. our
political parties are not politically erected, this is the reason for political
prostitution among politicians
2.Nigerian democracy
is badly suffering from over-concentration of power on the
executive ,the president and state governors determine what becomes the faith
of other arms of government,they mostly determine the judge to preside over
cases,the president determines who to arrest and who is jailed, the governors
decide when to pay their legislators and who is made their speaker.
In fact, in
clear terms,our democracy is similar to tyranny such regards, we need to
allow well structured principle of separation of power between the
executive, legislative and the judiciary,then we can have a brighter political
future.
My sincere appreciation goes to Mr. Saliu Akeem
Dennis (Candid) for being part of this post and of this blog,I believe my
fellow Nigerians have been able to gain one thing or the other concerning our
problems and the way forward
Have a
lovely weekend, I love you guys!
BUKKYGOLD
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