All manner of long-winded phrases are daily added to our political lexicon by politicians. They assail one another to have the larger slice of the national cake.
This day it is the “lying liars”; the next, it’s the “wailing wailers”.
There is never a lull in Nigeria’s current democratic narrative. When party A is not insulting party B, the government and the governed are having a cat-and-mouse interaction over a non-issue.
We still cannot decipher the time for governance from the time for politicking.
Those in the opposition do not recognise the time to give constructive criticism; neither does the government know the time to focus on rebuilding the nation’s broken down walls.
Our political space is a theatre of confusion, similar to the Biblical Tower of Babel. While everyone is talking, no one is listening. Issues are twisted and turned on their heads.
At times in the political melee, one can hardly differentiate between the argument of a pedestrian and that of a professor.
When the issue at hand favours one party, it is amplified. When this party’s “heroes” in government or opposition make a glaring mistake however, the same people keep mute or throw tantrums when anyone summons the temerity to point it out.
The attitude of our politicians has caught on our youths. Lots of young people are so ephemeral in their thinking they drag their feet on major issues.
Instead of discussing how we can move our nation forward, some trend the mundane and the ridiculous on social media.
Rather than discuss issues that can really move our nation forward in the media, young people infected by the name-calling syndrome spend hours insulting perceived “enemies”.
Nigeria cannot move forward in this kind of atmosphere.
Wailing and lying must stop in our polity. We’re not a nation of wailing wailers; neither are we a nation of lying liars.
We’re a nation of winners, fantastically blessed.
• Samuel Adeyemi
Lagos
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