In view of the announcement by INEC that campaigns would start from December 2006, we do advise our numerous political parties to embark on:
a) Membership Drive
b) Candidates Recruitment and Screening
c) Diaspora Mobilization
d) Alliance and Merger Deals
e) Voter Education and Motivation
All thes should be entrenched and conveyed in immediate and extensive POLITICAL RALLIES nationwide.
Let the land buzz and rhyme. 2007 be real!
Monday, August 28, 2006
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
INEC: Cash At Last!
Better late than never. Now that about 35 billion naira has been released to the electoral commission, let the real ACTION commence! INEC must work doubly hard to shame its critics. Okay, to reassure them...and us all.
For the voters, let's be patient with the system, without being complacent. No doubt, agitations from all quarters, including INEC's critics, brought this funds' release. We must watch out for any and all other booby-traps. We shall give no inch! We shall take no dime! We will claim our due!!
And, yes, the VIGIL continues!!!
For the voters, let's be patient with the system, without being complacent. No doubt, agitations from all quarters, including INEC's critics, brought this funds' release. We must watch out for any and all other booby-traps. We shall give no inch! We shall take no dime! We will claim our due!!
And, yes, the VIGIL continues!!!
Monday, August 14, 2006
Time For Political Code Summit
No kidding. No beating about the bush. No dilly-dally. It's time to ACT.
If you follow the political developments in the land, you cannot be neutral in thoughts or words. If you be a politician, you're entitled to be concerned, troubled and... scared. And you better be prepared, and prayerful. Times are testy. The terrain is tortuous. The tests be treacherous.
All are at risk. All.
As our elders did before, when the jungle jolts, you hunt in teams: safe bands that breathe you confidence, and bring you home as one. Let the call go out tonight that all politicians seek home as one, and may no-one breach the song of hope and honour again. A political summit to set the CODE of practice for all political players must now hold at dawn. The dawn, this time, is the bold rigorous firmament in all our stars which holds us as ONE, and folds us for ALL. The dawn that must hide not the wolf, a dawn that must tear all the shades of the monstrous past. A new and enchanting dawn! Breachers must be sanctioned, and breaches repaired. Firmly. Promptly.
All be at risk. All.
Politicians are not magicians. They are political engineers, technicians and opticians. If they be crippled by selves, God help us! If they be muffled at dawn, God help them! Be they blind...all be truly doomed! They must blink not, tonight.
We pray, as we must, for the wisdom of yore. May this tribe know their rights, and what be so trite. May one right be all right, and no right be more right than the rights of all. All souls.
So, the SUMMIT be due! All change.
If you follow the political developments in the land, you cannot be neutral in thoughts or words. If you be a politician, you're entitled to be concerned, troubled and... scared. And you better be prepared, and prayerful. Times are testy. The terrain is tortuous. The tests be treacherous.
All are at risk. All.
As our elders did before, when the jungle jolts, you hunt in teams: safe bands that breathe you confidence, and bring you home as one. Let the call go out tonight that all politicians seek home as one, and may no-one breach the song of hope and honour again. A political summit to set the CODE of practice for all political players must now hold at dawn. The dawn, this time, is the bold rigorous firmament in all our stars which holds us as ONE, and folds us for ALL. The dawn that must hide not the wolf, a dawn that must tear all the shades of the monstrous past. A new and enchanting dawn! Breachers must be sanctioned, and breaches repaired. Firmly. Promptly.
All be at risk. All.
Politicians are not magicians. They are political engineers, technicians and opticians. If they be crippled by selves, God help us! If they be muffled at dawn, God help them! Be they blind...all be truly doomed! They must blink not, tonight.
We pray, as we must, for the wisdom of yore. May this tribe know their rights, and what be so trite. May one right be all right, and no right be more right than the rights of all. All souls.
So, the SUMMIT be due! All change.
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Who's Running, Who Is Not?
We must ask every player to put their voice to their face in this serious business of our nation's "Governance from 2007". No more masquerading, please.
Save for a properly-constituted and official Campaign Office, no one else should speak for any of the candidates/contestants. Enough of all the speculations, insinuations and innuendoes, please. If anyone wants to contest, let them speak for themselves!
This August must be for qualitative and august players - important thinkers who want to serve and, thus, seek office to actualise their dream. Let them come out boldly and assuredly. Let them be the ones asking for help. We 've had enough of those hungry canvassers and fortune flies, buzzing around money-bags and dis-interested politicians. It is not their business at all. Why mourn more than the bereaved...or be more catholic than the pope!!
I have no problem with strategic recruitment and even the so-called drafting of good materials for elective and appointive office. But it should be decent and pragmatic. It should not be for a show or for privilege. All the media circus hitherto should end. Who is interested should run and who be not self-motivating need no begging!
Politics, as the business of invading our national vaults, is over. If the jokers and rent-seekers know not, let the targetted souls tell them. Besides, we've had enough of "reluctant leaders"!!
From now on, people, we need only the measured and meaningful voices of ACTUAL PLAYERS. The political parties need to ensure and enforce compliance with political best practices. We do need order and urgent sanity in the arena. Drive the polluters and all their odium out of town! NOW.
As I have always believed, the MEDIA should help us by screening out the noise-makers and charlatans. From this Month of August, enough is finally enough.
Save for a properly-constituted and official Campaign Office, no one else should speak for any of the candidates/contestants. Enough of all the speculations, insinuations and innuendoes, please. If anyone wants to contest, let them speak for themselves!
This August must be for qualitative and august players - important thinkers who want to serve and, thus, seek office to actualise their dream. Let them come out boldly and assuredly. Let them be the ones asking for help. We 've had enough of those hungry canvassers and fortune flies, buzzing around money-bags and dis-interested politicians. It is not their business at all. Why mourn more than the bereaved...or be more catholic than the pope!!
I have no problem with strategic recruitment and even the so-called drafting of good materials for elective and appointive office. But it should be decent and pragmatic. It should not be for a show or for privilege. All the media circus hitherto should end. Who is interested should run and who be not self-motivating need no begging!
Politics, as the business of invading our national vaults, is over. If the jokers and rent-seekers know not, let the targetted souls tell them. Besides, we've had enough of "reluctant leaders"!!
From now on, people, we need only the measured and meaningful voices of ACTUAL PLAYERS. The political parties need to ensure and enforce compliance with political best practices. We do need order and urgent sanity in the arena. Drive the polluters and all their odium out of town! NOW.
As I have always believed, the MEDIA should help us by screening out the noise-makers and charlatans. From this Month of August, enough is finally enough.
Make August Da Month!
An APPEAL. My plea to all: Make this Month of AUGUST the Month! Make haste slowly but so surely the weak will pick strength, the strong will pile grit. Make hate all lonely and slate CHANGE for all... as cake of life. Towards 2007, Make August da MONTH!
The blast-off for true political contests and people-centred electioneering held in May - after the famed demise of Third Term. The pace must now gain speed and be given speed. The tempo and tenor must rise. The place and space must widen and be widened. We await the gladiators.
But the debate, this time, must be just about a two-in-one point: NIGERIA & Nigerians. Full stop. Anyone having a problem with such basic single-mindedness should please do us a small favour: Stay home!
For true citizens, proud nationals and real patriots, the time be NOW, the month be AUGUST, the reason be JUSTICE. Just as simple as dat!
And to finally silence both the worried voices and all dem derailers, let's cut the noise by biting the proverbial politicl bullet. Let it be now, and from this First Day of August, 2006.
Come on, people, let's Make AUGUST da Month of CHANGE!
The blast-off for true political contests and people-centred electioneering held in May - after the famed demise of Third Term. The pace must now gain speed and be given speed. The tempo and tenor must rise. The place and space must widen and be widened. We await the gladiators.
But the debate, this time, must be just about a two-in-one point: NIGERIA & Nigerians. Full stop. Anyone having a problem with such basic single-mindedness should please do us a small favour: Stay home!
For true citizens, proud nationals and real patriots, the time be NOW, the month be AUGUST, the reason be JUSTICE. Just as simple as dat!
And to finally silence both the worried voices and all dem derailers, let's cut the noise by biting the proverbial politicl bullet. Let it be now, and from this First Day of August, 2006.
Come on, people, let's Make AUGUST da Month of CHANGE!
Mind Not The Taste
Politics everywhere is unpalatable. It has its splices and spices. It thrives on hush, hurt and howls. Pray why, it has its many ups and several downs. In the end, dear player, it stays, it says and it pays. Have always been.
So, when I hear the usual refrain about how dirty politics is, and why decent people should give it a wide berth, I smile. Pray, are we giving governance to "dirty" or "indecent" people, then? I'm sure we aren't. Pray, when will it become decent, then? Only when or as soon as we field the needed critical mass of "non-dirty", as well as decidedly-decent and consciously-clean players.
The total number of "KEY" elective and appointive offices in the land is less than 100,000. To find and instal them is not nuclear science, it is commonsense. Just community in humanity.
Hey, in a country of 150 million we sure can pull that through, can't we?
So, when I hear the usual refrain about how dirty politics is, and why decent people should give it a wide berth, I smile. Pray, are we giving governance to "dirty" or "indecent" people, then? I'm sure we aren't. Pray, when will it become decent, then? Only when or as soon as we field the needed critical mass of "non-dirty", as well as decidedly-decent and consciously-clean players.
The total number of "KEY" elective and appointive offices in the land is less than 100,000. To find and instal them is not nuclear science, it is commonsense. Just community in humanity.
Hey, in a country of 150 million we sure can pull that through, can't we?
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