Vote personalities, not parties
A man has a gun with him, loaded with bullets but with no knowledge of shooting, another man has a cutlass with him, an expert in it, decided to fight the first man.
They looked at each other from afar, both furious and blazing with anger, the man with the cutlass swept the tarred road with his cutlass, the friction created some sparks, sent fear to the nerves of the first man, he submitted, dropped his gun and quietly followed the second man.
The first man represents the masses, the second man represents the politicians, the gun is our voices, the bullets represent our PVC.
The PVC is the voice of the masses.
The politicians have made us look stupid, they make it seem we only have two parties.
The major problem we have is that, we are afraid of losing our votes(getting killed according to the story and we submit our guns to them, not knowing the power to liberate us is in the gun).
In 2003, Gani Fawehinmi contested for the President of this country, even when he had the name, the people refused to give him the vote(because most believed his party was too weak to win and were afraid of losing their votes).
We've forgotten that: the masses is the strength of the strong parties.
I've seen scenarios where someone changed his choice because he believed he won't win.
If the right candidate is in a weak party, then he loses the election, when would this stop?
In most scenarios, the leadership of the so-called strong parties impose their candidates to continue to enslave the masses or go for the highest bidder.
Now, we see a great defection, it seems 2019 will only be about PDP and APC(irrespective of who their candidates are), we're failing to look into personalities.
If we continue with this, the fear of losing our votes will continue to take our freedom.
Vote personalities, not parties.
Let's enjoy the democracy we have.
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But its so sad .that even with pvc ,the highest bidder wins !
Then they decamp from one party to another, we recycle the same set of people. They keep looting and we keep wailing.
May GOD help Nigeria.
But it lies in our hands
How does it lies in our hands explain. I followed u kindly follow
Although Nigeria election is not devoid of rigging but the vote of the masses still remain the major determinant of our leaders.
They are aware of that, reason they try to get the votes by all means(reference to Ekiti state election).
If only Nigerians will take time and know about those contesting instead of following a political party like sheeps, then, I believe the nation would have been better.
Our votes still remain the major force in enthroning our leaders.
Lets hope for the best
What about this situation ?
Party A > 1 right person, 9 wrong person and the right person is party leader.
Party B > 1 wrong person, 9 right person and the wrong person somehow became a party leader.
I am not saying we should always vote personalities or parties.
Voting depends on situation. Sometimes parties, sometimes personalities, sometimes both and sometimes neither of them.
Thanks for this writing. I really enjoyed reading it.
Thanks for taking your time to read my post.
I get your point.
Both personalites and parties go a long way, none can stand on its own.
Thank you very much, I will include it in my next posts.
I'll be ready to read. Thanks.