From Ighomuaye Lucky, Benin
Former Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, yesterday, promised to restructure the country if elected president.
Saraki, who made the promise in Benin when he met with the Edo State delegates of the Peoples Democratic Party to canvass for their votes ahead of the party’s primary, stated that President Buhari fought for years to remove him as Senate president for fighting for the integrity of the National Assembly.
“For four years I was the Senate president, nothing the presidency didn’t do to remove me as Senate President but I survived because I stood for the integrity of the National Assembly, Nigeria and what is right. I survived because I am a team player and I was on the side of the people.
He said Nigerians needs a courageous and experienced person who knows the issues, what to do and what is required to fix the country for the better.
“It is important that we have a courageous leader to take important decisions, we need a strong leader that can restructure and unify the country. I am the bridge between the North and South and I will unify the country.” he added.
The former governor of Kwara State told the delegates that 2023 is a defining moment for Nigeria, and they could not afford to vote for just anybody as President, adding that they need somebody who can rescue the country from becoming a failed country.
It never happened in the history of mankind as well as all system of government in the world where an individual would be a Problem of a Country or be a solution to the country problem So the fundamental question of rescue the country from becoming a failed state can never be a matter of an individual Solutions especially in Democratic system of government.
The Nigerian barbaric political culture and its unpatriotic and selfish political ideology of giving selfish priorities to the Luxury and Comfort of an elected offices as only mean to be questionably wealthy while democratically elected office holders whom are employed to office by votes of the peoples expected to be Democratic servants of the people turned themselves to semi gods and must be worship by the electorates However these characteristics of leadership styles of elected office holders since 1999 neither defined a true Democratic relationship between elected leaders at all levels and the followers nor a Military nor a Dictatorship but a cleared symptoms of a sickness of the society which absolutely demonstrated that Democracy not really compatible with a Sick Society called Nigeria Therefore in what ways would RESTRUCTURE the country be a solution to Democratic development?
and how would the country be United as People When the Recycled political culture of leadership are together United by Selfishness, United by greediness and United by questionable desire to continue oppression and subjection of peoples to untold economy hardships, insecurities and hopelessness in the name of dividend of democracy?
Because this recycled political culture of leadership are only recycled political ideology of JOBLESS SET OF VISION LESS PEOPLE whom are not Worth to be called leaders as far as democracy is concerns.
Mr Bukola Saraki as One of the Jobless Presidential aspirant in a recycled political culture which legalized what is illegal and moralised what is immoral all in the name of Politics should first tell Nigerians what really make him a BRIDGE between North and South?
Because the sacrificial legacies of the Military era in the history of Nigeria does not only built BRIDGES that physically connected Nigerians but Built BRIDGES of Love, Patriotism, Common National Identity, United Nigerians in Blood, Flesh and Spirits and One United Family as People with their patriotic leadership styles which the over 22 years of democracy and its barbaric political culture of leadership styles systematically destroyed.
Now how would it democratically possible for only Federal Tier of government to Democratic Proffered Knowledge based solutions to socioeconomic, political and security challenges threatening the motto of Nigeria in a Three Tiers Constitutional Democratic structure of government?
It is absolutely democratically impossible without viable and independence Local Government administration as well as States Government only federal government can not succeed in all its constitutional obligations to the people Therefore Mr Saraki should stop deluding himself by presenting himself as solution to the country problem because even If an Angel come down from Heaven to become Nigerian President Come 2023 undoubtedly will not succeed without ensure that all the Three Tiers of government are democratically and economically viable in all ramifications that defined Good Governance of which even the Military era in the history of Nigeria ensured that Local and States government administration are viable economically and remained part and parcel of their legacies.