By Prince Pieray Awele Odor
The first thing that I note about Mr. Obi’s character is that his “No shishi” reflects Nigeria of the good old days. This is because in the good old days no Nigerian bribed another Nigerian because no Nigerian gave any money to another Nigerian in order to make him (the recipient) do for him what he should not do, give him what he does not have natural or legal right to have, or violate any law in order to satisfy his or her interest.
Every Nigerian carried out his or her duties and obligations to fellow Nigerians as duties and obligations and not as favours. Favour was done. Its recipient gave appreciation or gratitude sequel to it. Ekene dike na nke ome, omekwa ozo (Igbo) and Ti omode ba dupe ore ana a ri imiran gba (Yoruba) show that gratitude succeeds action. For bribery, giving precedes action.
I define character concerning a person as the signification
of a person which gives him significance and serves as a basis for evaluating
the person in relation to other people for the assignment of a duty or
responsibility and deciding on the right person to be assigned the duty or
responsibility. In order to evaluate the characters of the three major
contestants when they carried out leadership duties earlier, I applied this
definition to the equation:
± Power ±
Actions ± Accountability = ± Leadership
The first is how the person became a governor or vice: freely
elected, bribed or rigged? The second, was he autocratic or democratic?; Did
he extort money from the people,
privatise to himself, or invested for the people? The third, did he account to
the people? Only positive for all the three means good leadership.
Only Mr. Obi achieved positive for all the three parameters.
This means that he alone will give Nigerians good leadership. Hence. he alone
will satisfy the quest that we have had for decades and terminate the
consequences of bad leadership that we have been suffering.
As a public good promoter, I give you this option: Vote for
the person whose actions in politics and social life over several decades ago
revealed to you his moral character and not the person who presents moral
character to you or projects such character through banners, radio and
television advertisements and social media. That is a deceptive strategy. It is
meant to take advantage of your ignorance about his past. Do not vote for the
person who plays philanthropist by giving out a lot of money, bags of foods,
cooking oils, and other things because these are bribes intended to cause you
to vote for him. He is fraudulent and opportunistic.
It is the practice of the means justifies the end and caveat
emptor. The second means: I have no duty to tell you the truth about me or my
intentions. Therefore, sharpen your mind and shine your eyes if you do not want
to be deceived to vote for the wrong person.
The consequences of the success of this deliberate deceit since
1999 is the best teacher of wisdom. Demonstrate that you are wise now! It is
said: “Fool me the first time, shame on you. Fool me a second time, shame on
me”. Do not be fooled a second time. Our experience teaches us that they become
concerted and autocratic when they win and take up the political duties that
you voted for them to carry out because of what they gave you during their
campaigns.
Generally, their primary and first interest when they begin
work is to recoup what they gave out during their campaigns, in money terms;
and they recoup it many folds over what they gave to people. This is one
general action of such people that has caused serious harm to our economy,
finance, currency value, well-being, health, human capital development, security
and national development.
They choose to do what suits them and to satisfy their
interests and not do what is good for Nigerians who gave them the privilege to
be where and what they are graciously. They choose to be loyal to the IMF,
World Bank and sundry foreign organisations and not to Nigerians.
Apply these wise sayings to making up your minds who to vote
for: No matter what you wear a dog, call a dog, or make a dog do, it remains a
dog. No one can give what he does not have, just as nothing cannot produce something.
A leopard does not change its spots. No one when he is old can change to the
use of his left hand and cease to use his right hand which he has used since he
was born. A man who has corruption as the constant in his life is irredeemable
and incorrigible.
To express the last wise saying clearly, any person who as a
vice privatised public economic infrastructures to himself and intends to
privatise as president is corrupt. Do not vote for him! Any person who as a
governor extorted and still extorts millions of naira of the internally
generated revenue of the state that he governed is corrupt. Do not vote for
him! Because he did either of these when he occupied a position that provided
him less power and authority compared to the authority and power that the
presidency provides, he will do worse if he is elected the president.
An autocrat cannot change! Do not vote for him! This is
because power or authority corrupts and absolute power or absolute authority
corrupts absolutely. Note that drug addiction has worse effect than the effect
of absolute power. Do not vote for a person who has privatisation maniac, is avaricious
and violated established standards of governance and his political party rule.
Do not vote for a person who is avaricious, conceited, autocratic, a drug
addict, and who disrespected Nigerians by insisting on a fellow Muslim to be
vice.
*Prince Odor is an Akoka, Lagos-based an Independent Researcher and Public Good Promoter (PrincePeterAweleOdor@gmail.com
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