By Promise Adiele
This is not a treatise on campaign
or a call for votes towards 2019. I am sure those who identify me as an
unrelenting critic of misrule and socio-economic polarity at any level will
immediately think I have inevitably joined the desperate among us who are
already clamouring for votes towards 2019. No, I have no such ambition and even
if I do, I lack the financial muscle to actively participate in the
thorn-strewn landscape of Nigerian politics. I am not schooled in the
inordinate ideologue of the current political class whose activities in recent
times continue to advertise Nigeria
as an exemplar of political mediocrity. For our politicians, 2019 is here upon
us, no stone should be left unturned, all hands must be on deck, the electorate
must be conquered and the price, the luscious nucleus of the exchequer, must be
won.
Vote for me in 2019 has become
a subliminal, recurring ingredient in the speech menu of expired and aspiring
politicians who have started campaigning towards the 2019 general elections
although INEC has not lifted the ban on political activities. The amusement in
our political widening gyre has prematurely commenced, the scheming for the
bounty from our land is on, the aggregation of interests, subterfuge and
manipulation is in full gear.