An era of political commercialization -By Abdulrahman Yunusa

Honestly, it’s a sad reality to realize that today no political party in Nigeria is on the mission of social salvation rather they unanimously shared a common interest of manipulating our interest and mandates in favor of their selfishness thereby exploring our economy and take away all the wealth that is meant to be use in the development of the masses. Yet we are here fighting for party or candidates with zero ratio of actual political consciousness. This sound so odd for people who claimed to be updated and informed to be such naive and gullibles.

Unlike the past generation and epoch where politics stood upon the pillar of ideology, well defined culture and philosophy. While the present generation focus more extensively on material pillars upon which money become the dominant factor when diving in to the lake of politics. The differences are easily identifiable for all except if one has no interest in siding with truth and progressive category.

As many said Politics is a game of interest or game of number or system of execution of policies as Earnest opined. Still the Nigerians negroid highly respected politician Malam came with ” Politics is Man management ” and its what I subscribe to for in his notion he wasn’t centered his eyes on selfishness by putting the interest of some few parties in to consideration rather looking every angle.

And as of today, the nature of our political climate have witnessed a faulty change by transforming to hazy and chaotic one simply because both classes are being spiritually destabilized by the introduction of the harmful  idea of money politics as a strong base in our political realm. Of such matter has also erroneously put us on top of the error spot which created more injuries to the society rather than healing remedies to the old wounds or filling up the old gaps as well desired.

Perhaps, the giant political figures of yesterday took politics as an emancipatory machine and positive change machine because they used politics to tackle all the tides, obstacles and social problems bedeviling their people and thus, they further consider it as transformative equipment as they efficiently played to develop their societies both physically and psychologically. That’s earned them the unflinching relevance that majority of our contemporary politicians are craving hardly.

As we can bear a witness, of all the durable as well as the social developmental projects we have today are being put in place by those people whom we term as “old generation politicians”  yet best of their kind and versions in the eyes of sensible folks and people of discerning mind.  They record this achievement simply because they were less chauvinist and they were less indoctrinated by corruption and other maladministration practices which today we see them as blockage to our development. Take the Universities out there and gauge it contemporary ones, the likes of ABU, ATBU, UNILAG, NSUKA UNi and the rest all built by those men of unchallenged reputation and class and their handiworks couple with blueprint, and meter plans can never be matched with that of ours.

Nevertheless, for the past Political experts, State-men they choose to be not power or money mongers like the irrational thought of which the modern politicians are attached to. They retain the retain the unprogressive idea of entrepreneurial politics that forces them to view anything political from the lens of self dream actualization of becoming a billionaire. When they begin let the whims and intention of joining politics flips their mind, all it hits their thoughts is “Political entrepreneurship” where as they will put some tokens as an input and later wickedly plunder our public treasury for the self enrichment as an output, nothing come radiant hits their mind apart from this.

However, the society wasn’t designated by the past heroes to be in such haphazard setting. Rather it is being manipulated by the muddy hands of those political entrepreneurs of which they eye nothing in politics rather than wealth. No social development, no human development and the most regrettable part of the reality, not even spiritual development from their sides. They possessed no iota of reason to develop even our economy which may in one way or the other help to extricate us from the shackles of misery rather give us money plus drugs to sway our attention from the lane of goodness and positively.

Meanwhile the monsters didn’t find it possible to achieve all sort of evil agendas until when they are done by devastating our strong political culture which recommend good wishes to society above everything should be the aim and objectives of one reason or motive to join politics. They also found this possible only when they substitute the then precious political cultures with fragile and worthless ones of which money politics topped ranking.

However, of all the chaotic political moments we are going through these days, we can’t afford to forget the milestone achievements of our forefathers in politics and in respect to such rattling efforts they have made so far by ensuring the actualization of the grandeur of our institutions they must take the credit and we should pay them with tributes. Moreover this can only be made unless if we are the legitimate children of our dear nations. Our True nationalist deserves any kind of beautiful remarks to be showered upon their departed souls.

Until we throw away the negative political jargons in the name of ideology and cautiously replace them with the past developmental ones, then will forever keep wallowing in the cave of pretense yet craving to have a better change in a spot where anything that has a nexus with better change will become futile and witness no avail session. We shall remain underdeveloped, unless if we make a thorough system overhaul to our modern political machineries and pursue the greatness in mindset in leu of money and political relevance.

The ” Architects of Old and modern Nigeria ” past figures in explicable term have achieved greatness and relevance despite been blessed with little resources of which they have judiciously applied them in making our country what its today. And they will keep receiving the credits of their fabulous deeds while laying at their resting positions till no point of stopping. And these money mongering devils will keep the tempo and gusto of yearning to attain what the later possessed and they will also keep receiving the perpetual shocks in the world of politics as the price of their sins against the innocent riffraff, Though, Above all, God is all merciful.

Caveat, no matter how awful the weight of Nigerian odds incidences look,  it’s of a great important for each and every good citizen to be optimistic about the future of his/her own entity as the theory of nationalism recommend. With hopes and putting them in to feasible machines through hardwork, dedication and persistency one day Nigeria will be great and better terrain again.

I have a better hope for Nigeria!

A graduate of political science

Bauchi state university, Gadau

Bauch state .

Write from Bauchi