Where are we now, as a country …on the scene? Or on our own dear political map…as recorders of events might refer.
Anyhow; any look at the Nigerian political system…right on centre stage, where the central actors and frontline cheer leaders love to play and stay...is all theatre. It is the theatre of our beloved history...in all its glory and infamy.
Our Nigerian political history is being put together, pixel by pixel, with the birth of every newborn baby; adding to the youthful burgeoning of a certain population, facing the disqquiet of uncertain security . And as the brushstrokes, and thickness of the different layers of events are added...replete with the vagaries of our environment - and calculations and the whims of us people. It is all history in steady formulation.
This is how our Nigerian political systems are being formulated...bit by bit, slowly and steadily. Every choice we make, and every direction we turn. Politics is about life…it's about survival…it is a struggle for power; and he who dares…wins control of the Nigerian political system, and becomes logged on the annals of our Nigerian political history, as the key player of the times.
Politics is everything…it’s as much about ideas, as it isn’t. It’s about cowardice and bravery. It’s about complexes of superiority and inferiority. It’s about minority and majority. Politics is at its most primary…a simple affair; it’s a jostle for control. It is a manifestation of - lack and insecurity. And the outpouring of many closeted beliefs.
The belief: “the only way I can preserve and protect my interests is by being in control…by having power over everything and everyone else inside of the Nigerian Political map. This is the cynical portrayal of Nigeria’s political history. But as cynical as this may be…it is a postulation that has its protagonists - numbering in the hordes.
The virtuous cynics, the opposition to our contemporary political establishment…clamour and say hysterically; we have politicians but not leaders. They say further; “We need to get the good guys in power”. “Our political map needs to be clambered upon, by more credible folk”; they say too.
But where are these credible leaders. Where are our credible leaders? If we have them…then why are they not out there…fighting in the dreaded muck to win power for the cause of good? Or aren’t their virtues and passion courageous enough…for them to make a stand on our behalf. The behalf of...many.
But there is a better alternative…one that is right for both us the people, and Nigerian political system; the same thing. Rather than wait for the - do gooders - to traipse backwards to our rescue, as we dawdle in the long wait, that has no end. Shouldn't we start to fancy the proposition that we are best representing ourselves.
We should get behind our own voice... of want and need. But first, we must create a broad base alliance cutting across - the disquiet and mentality of our tribal-ethnic centricity.
We should tell this sane massage to all Nigerians. Tell the rich folk, tell the powerful folk, tell the Moslem and Christain folk, tell the professional classes and the unskilled; this “A leadership that cannot protect the 'one citizen'...will eventually fail the other”.
As the Nigerian political system teeters on a collapsing brink [well, so, the virtuous - do gooders - and outsiders proclaim]. Let us take charge…we should take control. Our nation has no true sovereign but us...guided by our dreams and hopes and aspirations. So we'll stake our claim…we must stake our claim. But only together... with a wider and broader and deeper alliance of New Progressives.
We will [will], whatever influence we have within our own Nigerian political map, and change the Nigerian political system; because we must, [we must]. And we must, because we can. And we can, because…deep down; really, we want too. It's just that; we're not sure how.
Well! we'll just have to start the journey, along the paths of the Nigerian political map…and the path itself will teach us what we need to know. That change: is possible. The very probable emergence of a new and promising and brighter, Nigerian political system...crowned with the dreams of our sovereignity.
We will not be alone.
We can count on - them, you and us; to start the journey and follow through, right to the very end. Our certain future.
In the vision for a better Nigeria Political Map, it t is we...who are at its centre.
