The New Nigerian Face

>> Thursday, May 26,2011 <<

The entire north has since failed to
be united by a common ideology
because of the rise of down trodden
and minority empires ,second,
northern ruling elites and the
detractors ,third, misgiving against
the underdevelopment of certain
sections of the zone ,forth,
modernization and secularism and
fifth religious differences.
All these systematically accounted
for the allocation of victory slots by
native itself to ACN, CPC (Congress
for Progressive Change) in the North
and largely to Peoples Democratic
party (PDP) whose awesome
machinery of government in power
was highly deployed to carry
majority votes in the hemisphere in
spite of its non- northern
presidential candidate. To that extent
President Jonathan Victory in the
north is an innovation and tangible
political value in the African political
system and behavior .The
unthinkability of such in the past is
why it is viewed with high
skepticism in certain quarters.
This is , however , an apparently
political development that need to be
sustained in the future, if not then
the victory is not only pyrrhic but
also shrouded with skepticism in
want of evidence. For a nationality
that has been historically
traumatized in the federation their
son’s quest to the presidency of the
same federation or federated entity
that below off their rising stars and
freedom fighters in the bid to
subdue and conquer them ,this
would be an opportunity ad destiny
too costly to lose in the absence of
unalloyed solidarity.
Hence victory for president Jonathan
and PDP in the south- south zone is
both a historical and political
ideology as well as a pro-active
response to be Niger–Delta question
in contemporary Nigerian politics. It
also represents a minority protest in
the body politics which earned the
president victory in the northern
middle belt of Nigeria. The election
results in the south-east displayed
on amorphous character except in
the presidential election where the
zone alliance was drumbeated and
based on president Jonathan having
an Igbo cultural influence.
Unlike the south –west the south
east political behavior is the most
uncertain, incoherent and
inconsistent simply because it lacks
intellectual ,ideological and political
leadership with a vision that unites
the people of the zone. Without the
victory of APGA in the Imo- state
gubernatorial election the essence of
the party would have melted out of
the Nigeria politics and in south east
political consciousness. Yet true to
Igbo republican stance ship is the
emerging political truth: voting along
personality determination and not
along party determination which eat
across the south-east and which
lexically and essentially determined
who won in Imo state gubernatorial
race.
One lesson political observers and
policy makers should hold grip of is
the emerging political pluralization
with its accompanying citizenry
sensitivity to national and economic
issues. This is the highest stage,
although not the last or necessary
stage in Nigeria’s political
emancipation where citizens are
radically becoming less conscious of
separation or which ethnic group
picks the presidential slot.
Every post election experience is
enough to yield deductively
adequate data and information for
an in-depth analysis of global scales.
Good governance and justice is
proactive to stemming out
corruption and hunger, the pillars of
violence in general. Political reforms
that hinges on stamping out
ethicism, religious bigotry and
corruption is the spring board for a
genuine economic reform that
ensures general social and legal
justice in the society where the
primary goods of human dignity
and citizenship are embroidered by
the aesthetics of law, culture and
good governance.