Tinubu as a security risk?

By Joseph Edgar … .

The allegation has been made and expectedly the denials have come in torrents. My take is that there is no smoke without fire. This is what you get when some people arrogate themselves the power of ownership over our collective interest as a nation.

Why won’t some forces be upset that their likely candidates did not make the list of ministerial nominees and why would the establishment not fear that the over bearing Lord would not go back and hatch a revenge for the seeming and continuous humiliation and finally why would the rest of us rumor mongers not assert rightly or wrongly that the establishment would not just sit down and fold its hands and watch the Lord plan its downfall.

All these are a s a result of the kind of politics we are playing in this country. A politics of personality. A cult designed to the worship of one strong man. When a system is not institutionalized we will begin to see these kinds of kindergarten horseplay. Nigerians love that strong man, we love to just worship and bow to strong men and that is what leads us into all these funny situations.

From Sarduana to Azikiwe, to Awolowo, to now Tinubu it’s always been one strong man or the other. Let us institutionalize our polity, our systems and our processes so that decisions that affect national development can be objectively taken without the fear that we would be offending one powerful person or the other.

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The imbroglio in the Senate regarding its leadership, the stalemate in appointing ministers and everything else can be traced to this cult of personality. Who is Obama’s godfather, who is solely responsible for his election, whose interest must he guard in appointing his aides and ministers. Me I don tire for these overlords.

Everybody wants to be a godfather. From governors determining who goes to the National Assembly, to Local Government chairmen deciding who gets councillorship, we have wrapped ourselves into a cocoon of servitude.

Saraki is a demi god in Kwara choosing and deciding who eats and breathes there. He has brought that to the Senate not only refusing to take ‘orders’ from the overlords but also deciding who gets what in the Senate and expectedly has come under fire from the other lords.

We need to be serious in this country and give weight to our institutions while throwing the personality cult into the dustbin of history where it belongs.

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