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Who should we consider responsible for the demonization of democracy the iconic Anikulap-Kuti, once called “dem don crazy”, “demonstration of the mania …” in this country? It is time to tell the truth not only to power that the majesty of democracy has been contaminated. And so it’s time to ask if democracy can be supported to provide the development so necessary to the most populous black nation on earth. Yes, it is time to evaluate the democracy that we have monitored for 25 years because the main strength of its majesty, the rule of law, has become the rule of man, indeed the dominion of ministers only in the temple of justice. They are the ones who now determine who should occupy elective offices after the elections. After all, the powers of the bar and the bench are the electorate. And therefore we do not need to read the law before the awareness that in which man alone governs without the law, there will be chaos and underdevelopment. As a student, I read the chief book of Obafemi Awolowo on “The Travagli of Democracy and the State of law”, but until now I have not understood the meaning of that classic.
I covered this pantry of democracy as a senior journalist for almost 26 years (since 1999). But I am starting to conclude from his exhibition indices that this chamber (of democracy) has fallen not only because of the effects of those who have governed the country as “Federal Republic of the Nigerian army” as General Chris Ali, former head of the army captured in his book. Democracy failed us in Nigeria not only because of the effects of the unfavorable political economy of freedom of the press. Democracy seems to have lost its brand reputation not only because some of the “luck soldiers” have conspired and canceled our best elections. Let’s do some introspection before the next dip in 2027.
Here, the man who should be held responsible for the collapse of democracy is called: “Mr. Complacency “! Yes, please, also known as “contentment”, “gratification”, “pleasure”, “civilization”, “courtesy”. Really, the God of man, no no man of God, please reveal that yes; “Complancence” is the man, the stronghold who ruined the majesty of democracy in this place. And here are the gifts of the strong man that some development experts of the World Bank have just labeled “civic incompetence”: he is a Sicofante. He does not like drug dealers who speak the truth to power. It does not read. It is not recognizable. It is perpetually fear of any government cabal that is ruthless and does not tolerate the rule of law.
The important but insignificant complacency of man is perpetually full of epicurean spirit (loves pleasure and good life). He likes a little learning and so he is governed by intuition, not by learning or knowledge. Oh, he doesn’t like the power that knowledge gives. He loves mediocrity in all his ways. He does not like that nobody is sold a spirit of excellence in his domain. He doesn’t like seeing the police. The only adorable thing he likes is the average evidence of corrupt people in which suspicions are appointed and shameful before investigations.
And so the progeny of limited man, the complacency is always strengthened in the economic man’s system that also has a cousin called “administrative man”. Both men are not patriots after all. Furthermore, they do not worry about the earnings that democracy can lead to the people. They only work for the gods of their bellies. And worse still, his expectations on the government system are very low. According to a managerial economist, Risunjay Tiwari, the “economic man” is guided by the purpose. He is rational as he can order his various preferences based on his hierarchy of values and therefore actually make his choice to maximize the desired value. For the “economic man”, there is a complete awareness of various alternatives and the result of each alternative can be identified in such a way that the alternative with the best result is selected.
It presupposes that there are no limits to the collection of information and its processing. This is the path of the “economic man” who benefits from an atmosphere of the main man, complacency.
In the same way, the “administrative man” is a relationship between “economic man” in the kingdom of “complacency”. According to Herbert Simon, a guru of politics, the “administrative man” has only a limited and simplified vision of the problems that face his society because he has only limited information. Furthermore, it has no full knowledge of all possible alternative solutions to problems and their results. Furthermore, it does not have the ability to navigate in the competitive environment and the technical information in it.
Therefore, human and organizational limitations make it impossible for people to make perfectly rational decisions in which the “economic man” and the “administrative man” dominate in a complacency society. There are always “boundaries to rationality” in such an environment. Unfortunately, these men always grasp power in the center because democracy is fragile here.
This is the reason why we must play the alarm that the complacency of the Mr. must wake us up by the political amazement that “the economic man” and “the administrative man” would like to remain in this age that qualified young people are interrupting daily with the social technologies that help them make progress. I would like to challenge all young people under the age of 40 to be interested in this country that democracy and its drivers have relegated to one of the poorest on the earth. Do not let anyone be deceived by the common public enemy called complaining regting wherever you go to Nigeria. This democracy that survived only to “economic man” since 1999, cannot lead this country to size. Democracy is not even safe at the moment.
This is time to say a truth at home to young people of 30 and as well as they should print the texts of the old national anthem and spring from their rhetoric in social media to action, “not to be the last” as a Ghanaian writer, Kwesi Brew once he warned us.
The old and newly rested national anthem should be their (invitations to action) of social mobilization so that cursed democracy (since 1999) is saved. The young people that subsequent generations, including mine, have failed should prepare to recover their blessed country, which politicians have ruined with an atomic bomb they call democracy. There is some hope in the architecture that we can find in the rubble. And so, young and vibrant should arise and obey the call of Nigeria. This is because instead of fulfilling the commitment to Nigeria, to be faithful, loyal and honest, our leaders have become unfaithful, underground and dishonest in all the arms of the government. Instead of “serving the country with all their strength”, the country’s treasure with all their strength have plundered. Instead of defending his unit, they forgiven the “disunion” that the leadership of the government party has unleashed in the country with unbearable and infinite “parish appointments”.
There is neither honor, nor glory remained so that citizens can love. Every day, young people cry for the state of anomia in a country, where most leaders sleep practically in service. And as an African writer, Ngugiwa Thiong’o observes: “The hope of a better tomorrow is the only comfort you can give to an crying child”. In this case, there is no glimmer of hope than a better tomorrow beyond the slogan. Almost twenty -six years of democracy have delivered only a man called complacency to the nation. The economy is a chaos. Electricity has always been about 4000 megawatts for over 200 + million people in 36 states and the capital of the nation. Generally, after 26 years of constant democratization, there are no good connection roads from states to states.
Even the roads of the economic agencies, including aerial and seas ports, in the so -called economic capital of West Africa, Lagos are not remarkable. Democracy has delivered private jets only to the prominent power of power that flies every day on bad roads that people strike, suffer and smile. Since the roads have been left to God in heaven to repair, even the schools- from primary levels to university levels- are not institutions in which innovations can be delivered to citizens in the 21st century.
As for health delivery, this column asked questions: because even the often sick leaders, some of whom died in office, did not consider it appropriate to finance the university teaching hospital of Ibadan at a world -class health center where medical services can also be financed, as they once were. Where is the radius of hope in which the “legislators”, “Execut-Thieves” and “Sharing Judi” as the city journalists now call them, collaborate to protect their members accused in an enclave cultivated by complacency?
As we have seen over the centuries, as noted by a political thinker, James Laxar, democracy emerged in a particular historical and cultural context as a consequence of specific social, political and economic struggles. Still, there have been no convincing evidence that there is a universal desire for democracy in all social cultures and contexts, and we can therefore give up the dubious proposal that democracy is a growth of human nature. And so the appetite for democracy does not derive from political theory but from the tangible needs of millions of people. Young people should note that above all, democracy is advanced by the success of political movements whose goal is to improve the life of the majority of the population in various ways. This did not happen in our country.
Today, as Chinua Achebe in 1983 noticed, the problem with Nigeria is still in a simple and direct way of the failure of the leadership that institutionalized corruption as a fundamental objective and management principle of state policy. Without a doubt, the corruption that gave birth to mediocrity and despair in the country. Part of the errors of democracy has just echoed in the center of the drama called Lagos. Yes Lagos in which an ex speaker could break into the chambers he chaired for 10 years and declare himself speaker with the help of our police officers without law. Haba, democracy, where is your classic majesty? And so for young people, do not miss the hope, organized. Yes, organize. No longer agreed. This is the age of big data. Cracking in the organization of your data on how the elite of the power of Nigeria, politicians, public employees and some idiots called Barons have demonized democracy as a government of a few corrupt for their families and their in -laws. That’s why the paralyzed man called complacency should be banned for democracy to be a pleasant conversation, an advantage. And so, the young talents here should not allow the greedy roosters to launch a pearl called democratic leadership in front of a pig, in order not to continue ruining our country. The weapon they always use is called complacency. The care is the search for civic competence: the power that knowledge and integrity can give to defeat the fear of our “very bad people” who have crashed within 25 years and dance on his grave.
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