On media memory of wonders to talk about without end, Egede Lawrence writes.
It appears to me that those who are gunning to become leaders of the people, by the people and for the people, in politics and in the democratic world of this time, are unaware of the error in the language of "I WILL" do this or that. Nothing like "We Will Do".
We aren't jacks of all trades who are masters of none in things of everybody, as we campaign for one political big position or the other and forget the collective bargain nature of saying things and doing them accordingly.
But in the case of the incoming politicians of self-assertion, they promise to do this or do that, with the "I WILL" sweet tongue. That's one basic error there, which they may not know.
Once the "I WILL" language is the first thing, it boils down to the same self-assertion that Lucifer used with pride, lonely arrogance and deceit to allure the world into trouble with God. It's a commonplace huge error.
It is both a basic and common error, which the politicians keep on committing unawares in the "I WILL" language, with political self-assertion. It is a problem.
All the political Manifestos are fraught with the filth of "I WILL" business, presenting it to mean self-assigned lone government, in the form of bad democracy.
Nigeria has been suffering from the results of bad democracy in the world of politics, not aware of the hell we have experienced for donkey's years of existence.
If I am left to suggest anything that will be good for Nigerians, we should rather assign those in the struggle to become new leaders, than them assigning us. This could serve us better.
Assigning them with a working document is the correct thing in a fine democratic dispensation.
Inclusive of the working paper of the assignment handed over to the politicians, if they care to take it and obey, their kind of Manifestos can be added.
But all the while and contrary to expectation, it has always been the politicians that prepare their Manifestos and present them publicly as working documents.
It means they are the ones assigning themselves to the position of work to be done, and dictating the pace for us.
In such a case, can anybody blame them if they can't carry out what they promised to do?
This is where we are today in Nigeria, with no political leader to blame for doing nothing that is or was expected from them.
The politicians in Nigeria are not to blame for doing nothing because they use their money, use their connections, use their efforts, use their influence and use their tactics to be in power.
That's why when they get to the top, it will be easier for them to dump any good idea, carve out their way of doing things, follow their pattern of work to do what they want, and in the end, can call it bullshit anytime.
That's why they arrogate to themselves everything at a glance, they control everything and force almost everybody to submission, with no alternative.
For the first time in my life have I seen a Governor, who is strong enough to behave aloof and big enough to ignore people, yet he bent down to do great things at a time, when political investors are recovering the money they spent over time, having come to power. This is Governor Umahi.
I used to listen to him talk but seldom did he oftentimes use the political word, "I WILL", apart from where he refers to what belongs to him directly.
But still, that political personal position assertion language is scarcely heard from him, as we hear it today at the soap boxes of political campaign activities.
I am talking about what I saw and not what I didn't see, with my two naked eyes and heard with my ears in Ebonyi State.
I will keep on talking about Governor Umahi's humility, wherever I go no matter how other people see what I saw, or heard what I heard in similarity or not. We are moving forward.
I don't know about other States, but it could be some States can boast of their Governors.
In this era of political, social, economic and religious crisis, somebody tamed the lions and built a beautiful City in peace.
That's a great achievement and a success story of a place that history could not recognize, far back in the high-class memory of modern time developments.
To God is the glory forever.
Egede Lawrence is our Guest Writer and Phoenix Public Analyst.
