Normally, a politician is said to be that person that is actively engaged in politics especially an elected or appointed government official. Usually the Nigerian definition for terms is always different from that of other societies. So in Nigeria, a politician is any person that is involved in politics. It is important to note the difference in adjectives while in other societies a politician is actively engaged in politics, in Nigeria any person involved in politics is called a politician. In other words Nigerians calls the driver of a senator a politician and the funny thing is that the senators driver meet his friends and try to teach them how politics is been run in the country, even though the driver has never won in any elections –he is just a common driver. But then the surprising thing is that those people the driver teach politics, will accept his political theory and then a wise person among them would ask, why has he not contested any elections? Then others would say something like: he does not have money –forgetting that elections are sponsored by other individuals not even the contestant; then another would say he is just not lucky –without considering the fact that there is only a very minimal element of luck in an election; now the third person would say that he is godly and don’t want to get involved in the difficult spiritual process during elections –and then everyone would agree with him; Why? –Nigerians are very religious but slightly spiritual. Now, we also have another group of Nigerians who are actively engaged in Nigerian politics. That particular group of Nigerians is the real Nigerian politician. The problem is that, this group is very small compared to the total number of people we have in the country. Imagine in Nigeria a person can be representing a senatorial district for more than 20 years, then I begin to wonder if that person is the wisest person in the community –and you know what trips me; for the 20 years that person might be a senator, many times you would see that the senatorial district is lacking any kind of serious development. But then they are always voted back into government. Look at me talking about voted back into government –they do not need any body’s vote to become senators, all they need to do is to put their political machineries together and then as usual they win the elections. So these groups of people are the ones called the actual Nigerian politician and they are very few. Visit www.emmyjoach.blogspot.com to get more on THE NIGERIAN series.
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