This is just because some lousy individual feels that their political structures are being tinkered with.
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Wike, who is the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party National Campaign Council, made the commendation while addressing a large crowd of party supporters at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa on Sunday.
Obaseki, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, said this during his ward to ward campaign tour across the 10 wards in Esan North East Local Government Area.
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State, Moshood Salvador, on Sunday described the National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as a gift not only to the South West, but the entire nation.
The Ogun State Chapter of Omoluwabi Movement, a socio-cultural group with South-West focus, has described the recent report credited to the Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, on “ending godfatherism in Lagos” as a mere “idle talk of a frustrated political expansionist.”
However, expectations began to fade away when certain alien devilish elements unknown to real democracy were introduced into Nigeria’s democratic system. One of these evil elements hindering the enjoyment of our democracy is godfatherism. Godfatherism is a symbiotic relationship between two persons, namely the godfather and the godson, where the godfather uses his political power and wealth to secure political position for the godson, who upon ascension into power continuously pays gratification to his godfather in kind or in cash or both. This is where imposition of candidates comes in. This has even gotten down to grassroot politics. You cannot become a council chairman or ward councillor except you are anointed by the local sub-godfathers who are answerable to the central godfather at the center. Godsons, after attaining power, they have no choice other than to serve their godfathers to the detriment of the electorates and the people. By so doing, they spread hunger and starvation, neglect socioeconomic institutions, abandon infrastructural developments, poison civil service through amputated salaries, irregular civil servants’ promotions, dustbin welfarism, exploitative policies, cripple pensioners, unemployment while their godfathers drive them around and their relationship is liken to that of a television and remote control where the television is seen by all but being controlled by unseen person in one angle. This is a fatal blow to the concept of democracy and good governance.