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The Woes Of Nigeria Political System: A Trapezium Of Foul Smell
By Dr Jarlath Uche Opara
Woes! The cry of souls pained and distraught. Woes! The frustration of a souls, helpless and hopeless, watching the sink and drown of the bride called Nigeria.
Woes! The groans of souls who desired a good and functional system.
The Trapezium of political plots that has destroyed the values of democracy and makes it a joke spilled, sprewed and cracked by the road side bar ,the bane of our electoral sanity.
The woes of Nigeria isn’t any political system.
At the lowest level of electoral decay and stink are the gullible masses and the pathological corrupt politicians. At these two sides of our political Trapezium are where violence, vote buying, carrying of ballot boxes, mutilation of results figures etc. Hold sway.
These are where the magical electoral fraud is carried out. So, for the sake of clarity, a Trapezium is an object with four unequal sides. Two at the base, and the other two on the top, in an unequalled unaligned manner. So Nigeria political process is “Trapeziumized”
The shape of the Trapezium speaks volumes on the obvious decimation of justice, fairness, equity etc in our political culture.
So when both the greedy and highly vulnerable masses and their impish political class have had their mishmash of political robbery and the one that out smarts or rather bribes more gets to the next level of the Trapezium,
where INEC would do their magic, signs and wonders and the Judiciary would hit the garvel on the one who greases and pampers more , even if he comes last in the electoral process.
See what happened in Edo gubernatorial and Imo local government elections. The pattern same, the results same and the advise to go to court almost a harmony and the justiciary prouncement already envisaged, sealed and delivered.
Nigeria electioneering process is inhabited by the demons of violence, bribery , corruption etc until there is a deliberate session of deliverance/ exorcism on the masses, the political elites, the INEC and the Judiciary, nothing would change from the pattern of giving positions of authority to the highest bidders.
Who will do this deliverance? Who would be diligent enough to engage them with exorcism?
In their impunity and delvry manipulations, the name of God still pops up from their mouths like men of God inhabited by the spirit of God.
How can one engage the services of the devil only to use the name of God to validate their attriocitious results. You rigged, you carried ballot boxes, you wrote and mutilate results, then the temerity to allude your victory to God wasn’t lacking. Isn’t this calling the name of God in vain? Defamation? And sacrilegious?
In the two elections mentioned above, where was the place of God? Most annoyingly, one would be hearing them, gibberishingly bringing the name of God into the mud of corruption and electoral fraud, orchestrated and executed with the mind of everything but God.
Nigeria is in a circle of viciousness, the circle isn’t breaking anytime soon! Except by divine intervention.
Come 2027,the vicious circle of corruption, rigging, electoral fraud etc will continue unbated, even in a more brazenly “toutish” rascality.
The only escape route from this Trapezium of foul smell is total attitudinal reorientation. How soon? The gullible masses, the corrupt politicians, the compromised INEC and the highest bidder takes it all Judicial system should answer.
Dr. Jarlath Uche Opara Jarlathuche@gmail.com