#Kanzee Battling with politics of self-destruct Via @iKanzee_RR

WE can never underestimate the evil in politics
until we are victims; this is where the strain
between loyalty and deceit is chaotic. Many
equate deceit for loyalty but loyalty entails
telling the truth and giving facts to promote
societal good; unfortunately for “political bats
and mosquitoes” blackmail is the bedrock to
political ascendancy.
Alhaji Ibrahim Waziri, leader of GNPP in the
second republic knew this when he introduced
“politics without bitterness” in 1979. My
odyssey reveals the bad and the good that
pollute our body politics, they sprout like
weeds that destroy crops and prosper in
mischief.
A party leader who once enlisted you for his
trivial venture but failed can resort to
blackmail to destroy your political career.
Their victims are those who refuse to
compromise good for evil in the years of
struggle but man’s memory is short and a
monster in blackmail can terminate good
victims at Golgotha.
This is evil repeating itself as reason and
good deeds of their prey count less in
persecution but if political loyalty in trenches
against undemocratic forces does not count in
sanity, why the vengeance to destroy good
values in a man?
These vices negate democratic commitment;
politics in Nigerian is entrenched in blackmail,
lies and victimization. We have the honest
that labours in vain and the dishonest that
reaps where he never sow, these shady
characters that dance, drink and eat in parties
claim unmerited medals for their chameleonic
slippery steps and make the words in our
national item “ the labour of our heroes past
must not be in vain” treacherous.
Lack of patriotism could be traced to a
chaotic system that rewards indolence and
failure in place of competence. Many Nigerians
who laboured for President Jonathan in his
acting capacity and election in 2011 are not
holding political offices but are resolute in
their commitment to continue to support his
re-election bid in 2015 despite their
limitations.
These are heroes because their support is not
tied to “a loaf of bread” unlike “stomach”
political destitudes hovering in corridors of
power to claim others sweat. Politics of
bitterness, recriminations and pull him down is
consuming our values, they were mines that
decimated the first and second republics and
are evident today. Tribalism, religious bigotry
and sectionalism in the land are traceable to
political bitterness, greed, sectionalism and
the blind greed for political power.
Until politics is devoid of these, leadership will
continue to be tainted, policies will continue to
be questioned and the political space laced
with destitudes.
We must rejuvenate ethical values to guide
our sustenance as a people if we are
concerned for the future. Politics today is
schemed towards destruction of opponents
rather than growth and development; we are
all victims of this contamination. The Boko-
Haram insurgency that is a national tragedy,
like all cancers, started from a minor part of
the body before becoming a national
catastrophe.
The challenges of President Jonathan are
similarly hooked on rumours, lies, and
blackmail by mischief makers. President
Jonathan’s place of birth or religion is not his
own making like other Nigerians. We must live
together in tolerance because discriminating a
Nigerian on the bases of birth, region, religion
or tribe is questioning God’s will.
The President’s critics dressed in this
bitterness in the guise of politics are wolves
and Nigerians are asking whether President
Jonathan would have received same
antagonism from the north if he was a Hausa-
Fulani Muslim?
These sentiments are distractions; they hinder
good governance, unity of the nation and the
war against corruption. Our homes, streets
and public institutions are becoming brothels
where girls of easy virtue hawk their anatomic
curves for pleasures, our traditional rulers
reward criminals and fraudsters with garlands
and traditional titles to sustain their elegant
lifestyle.
These characters with no education but
stupendous wealth use their new found status
to arrange marriages to highly educated
women in strata of the society, as ornaments
to boost their ego. Our moral resistance is
weak due to lack of anti-dot to resist these
strange anti-bodies virus.
Those against Jonathan are ethnic bigots,
economic saboteurs and religious fanatics
using blackmail to promote bitterness and like
rapists that defile our women and society,
heartless. We cannot blackmail Jonathan’s
government and expect growth and
development. When confronted by these social
misfits we must demand facts before reaching
conclusion because those who indulge in
destroying others are as contagious and
deadly as the Ebola epidemic.
Areghe Abugo, a political analyst, wrote from
Uzere, Delta State.
We need to encourage nationalists like Chief
(Dr.) E.K Clark because the Presidency is the
birthright of every Nigerian. We must not
reward vultures that mill around the corridors
of power to feed on our unity and identity. We
must build Nigeria on a value that sustains
its people and a political ideology that
encourages fertilization of ideas.
Back in Delta State Governor Uduaghan is also
a victim, as every tale from misfortune to
inaction is tied to him. When a man fails to
impregnate his wife or his wife suffers
miscarriage, Uduaghan is blamed. The moral
decay and failure of parents is blamed on him.
We need social and political education as we
cannot continue in this blind race of
destroying values because of greed.
Integration and national unity in a nation so
divided by greed, tribalism, sectionalism and
bitterness is necessary; we need a nation that
sees strength in her diversity.