A strong desire to access the bare necessities rarely made available by successive governments is one of the tools that sparks voter interest in what to expect from their elected officials when they take office. They yearn to find their feet in life.
The high cost of living and other dire economic problems have combined to worsen the current situation, leading to a rise in the country’s poverty index. Citizens from all parts of the country are ideally stuffed with what awaits them in the upcoming general election, allowing many to keep programs ready to orient the electorate on who to vote for and who should be collectively fired by ballot.
Most politicians promise the electorate heaven on earth. Because elections are not easy to win by presenting facts to voters as they are, searchers for election officials devise ways to arouse their sensitivity by making mind-blowing promises that can hardly be fulfilled in the world of reality.
To increase their chances of being elected, like their executive branch counterparts, legislators in both the National Assembly and the state Houses of Assembly have developed constituency projects to endear themselves to their constituents and join to the executive for praise who usually follow politicians who put structures on the ground for all to see.
The politicians vying for these seats need to think beyond personal gain and focus their goals on what could change and bolster people’s already broken confidence. As loyal Nigerians, nothing should be more important to us than the absolute enthusiasm to save the country, to bring sanity into the system, to ignore every distraction that loots like a political campaign. There is also a need for us to be deliberate in our search for a country that works.
- AbdulQudus Abdullahi, Bayero University Kano, Nigeria
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