THE NIGERIAN 2: NIGERIAN POLITICS

THE NIGERIAN 2: Nigeria politics
General politics

Before I dissect the Nigerian as a politician, I would like us to look into Nigeria political system. The Nigerian political system is a multi party system with about twenty six (26) registered political parties but only very few parties are occupying available positions in the government. One might be tempted to ask why political parties like the PDC (people for democratic change), that does not have a representative in the house of assembly would still exist as a political party in Nigeria. Political parties of such reputation only exist because of the following reasons;
Some of the founders of these parties use their party structures to make money during elections. Most times these parties do not conduct primary elections or sometimes conduct a caricature primaries and so the party system is such that a particular person is always representing the party something like a “life candidacy” what this candidates does is to collect money from one of a stronger opponent in that election and then claim that he is pushing over his –let’s say 50,000 supporters, but the opponent knows that he does not have up to 50,000 supporters. In any case the opponent will still give him the money after all the money is not his, it belongs to his sponsors and he is just following the rule of Nigerian elections –which is: to share the money.
Another reason such political parties exist; is to cause distractions during the elections. In many occasion, the founders of these political parties might not be happy with the fact that only some individuals in their community is being celebrated and so to satisfy their ego, even though they are fully aware that nothing would ever make them to win the elections. They still get involved so that their name and posters would appear everywhere in their community. Meaning that indirectly they have bought popularity very expensively, because there are cheaper ways for them to gain popularity. When you look at such people you would laugh at the time, effort and money they have just wasted looking for popularity, when they would have just gone to AIT, NTA or one of Nigerians media house and just pay for time to keep announcing their personality. It would have been cheaper wouldn’t it?
Now to the business men. They form small political party so that they can use that to get favor from government. They are very wise people they always avoid the big and stronger opposing parties, so that government would not use it against them. They either join the party of the present government or form small political parties, and then make friends with government by claiming to have a common enemy –the stronger opposition party and that together they can fight the enemy. Even though they know that they would not win the elections, they know that at least they have spent money trying to buy government favors in the future, hoping to collect back the money they have spent and even more in kind. Business men –wise people.
 Some Nigerians are funny; they just form political parties for no real reason. They just want to join the fun of elections and flex their muscle that is all, nothing else.
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