IF YOU DIE FOR SOMEONE’S ELECTORAL AMBITION…

There will always be die-hard supporters of any cause, crusade or campaign. Fair. But to waste your life for somebody’s electoral ambition is a stretch! Especially when: a) they don’t put their own life and those of their family/loved ones on the line; a) they don’t care about service but servitude, which their track record should amply show; and c) they don’t even know you or your family - because you were merely hired by their pimps and cronies!

The past is the past, but in today’s Nigeria let no such misadventure befall you or those you know. It is a criminal waste, and your family and Creator will be entitled to condemn you roundly for it! If you are fed up with life you’re not the only one. If you hate the state of things in the land, you have big company - many of us do. If you want a particular person or party to win and help change things, so do others. Which is why it is a political contest and not a personal do-or-die combat! Which is why it is democracy and not despondency! Win some, lose some - that’s life, isn’t it?

Key Question: If you waste your life for someone’s political ambition, where or what is your personal ambition? Pray, you be more Catholic than the Pope? Haba! Search.

And the real cool thing about elections is this: you can always win next time! There are so many examples of this. Some people try up to SEVEN times before landing the job! And, yes, it is a JOB - going there to SERVE the people. So, if you go job-hunting, and just to be sure you got hired, will you hire hoodlums, thugs and assassins to “deal” with the other job-seekers? Or disrupt the final interview, so you can write the results and do your own appointment letter? After scaring away, intimidating, maiming or killing the umpires and representatives, would you get hired? More importantly, do you deserve the job? Telling. Humbling.

If anyone got a job that wayward way, that organization is in trouble. Such people will carry their do-or-die characteristics to deadlier levels throughout their career. And the higher the stake the more heinous they’ll get! Same for secular jobs same for spiritual jobs, worse for political jobs. Why, we must steer clear of such desperadoes! Fast.

Hey, I love to lose the pitch for Accountant this year, go get better-equipped, work harder, watch closer,  pray higher and come back to clinch Financial Controller in four years’ time or ED Finance in eight years’ time! Sweet, isn’t it?

It happens all the time. Prepare. Wait.