APC: A PARTY THAT WANTS POWER FOR ITS OWN SAKE: by: Idumange John APC is a Political formation of persons who are adept at hate speeches. At a point members discredit one another just to gain cheap political points. Atiku has called Buhari and El Rufai all manner of unprintable names. Amaechi has called Tinubu and other APC Governors betrayers. Chief Tom Ikimi before he went back to the PDP called the APC a party of betrayers, bombers and Boko Haram sponsors. They throw tantrums without apologies to the masses and I think this is because they have no solid ideological grounding before the unholy matrimony. In October 2010, Alhaji Lawal Kaita said on behalf of the Northern Elders Political Forum. He said: “We’ll make Nigeria ungovernable for Jonathan. Anything short of a Northern President is tantamount to stealing our Presidency. Jonathan has to go and he will go. Even if he uses incumbency powers to get his nomination on the platform of PDP, he will be frustrated out of office” Yes, Kaita was right because now he has rallied the North to reinforce the offal that is Boko Haram to distract President Jonathan and to frustrate and destabilize the nation. By implication elders like Kaita represent a bad example to the youths and a monumental waste to his generation because the real essence of living is preservation of self and future generations. Malam ABU KING SHULUWA tried to take it to a bizarre level of conjuring some teleological inspiration to find a solid grounding on why Jonathan should not contest in 2015. He said this much: “ I saw a vision of the country disintegrating by 2015, but the only person that can save Nigeria from the impending disintegration is President Jonathan and he can do that by not contesting the 2015 Presidential election” SHULUWA was not done yet. He continued to essay his bad verses: “If he does, then he is calling for the total revolution which will affect every household. That revolution will start the day Jonathan is announced as the candidate of the PDP. If he dares win, the election, he will hardly be sworn-in because of the revolution” Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behavior. Psychology is a multifaceted discipline and includes many sub-fields of study such areas as human development, sports, health, clinical, social behavior and cognitive processes. In the early days of psychology there were two dominant theoretical perspectives. An American psychologist named William James (1842-1910) developed an approach which came to be known as functionalism. He argued that the mind is constantly changing and it is pointless to look for the building blocks of experience. Instead, focus should be on how and why an organism does something. It was suggested that psychologists should look for the underlying cause of behavior and the mental the processes involved. Structuralism was the name given to the approach pioneered by Wilhelm Wundt. The term originated from Edward Titchener, an American psychologist who had been trained by Wundt. Structuralism relied on trained introspection, a research method whereby subjects related what was going on in their minds while performing a certain task. However, it proved to be unreliable method because there was too much individual variation in the experiences and reports of research subjects. Because psychology is a science it attempts to investigate the causes of behavior using systematic and objective procedures for observation, measurement and analysis, backed-up by theoretical interpretations, generalizations, explanations and predictions. The classic contemporary perspectives in psychology to adopt these strategies were the behaviorists, who were renowned for their reliance on controlled laboratory experiment and rejection of any unseen or subconscious forces as causes of behavior. And later, cognitive adopted this rigorous, scientific, lab based scientific approach too. With its broad scope, psychology investigates an enormous range of phenomena: learning and memory, sensation and perception, motivation and emotion, thinking and language, personality and social behavior, intelligence, mental wellness and much more. For four months running, I have painstakingly studied the psychology of the APC, its psychology and its leadership. In research, no study is finality, so further studies can be initiated as we inch closer to 2015. First, APC has no coherent ideology on how Nigeria should be governed. I agree that they have put together a mosaic and parchments of some statements that seem idealistics but not practicable in the Nigerian setting. For example, Free Education: Nigeria attempted free education without planning hence it collapsed in the East only a year after it was introduced in 1956; in the West it collapsed but only managed to resurrect under Awolowo’s UPN during the Second Republic. The reason is that in education, implementation of any programme must take account of the school age population; gender, facilities, physical infrastructure, the teaching and non-teaching staff and other vital educational inputs. The question is HAS THE APC COMMISSIONED SUCH A RESEARCH TO MAKE SUCH A UTOPIAN PROMISE TO HOODWINK THE LESS INTELLIGENT HALF OF NIGERIANS? Not to my knowledge. APC is piloted by those who have no compass. Secondly, it does appear that the APC wants power for its own sake without the people. Democracy is a system of government anchored on the people. In fact without the people, democracy loses its meaning. What we see the leaders do is imposition, dictating who should occupy what position and the tyrannical move to usurp power even from those who mooted the idea of the unholy merger. We can see complaints about imposition of candidates in the few less-than-edifying congresses they have conducted. Another psychology is for APC Leaders ton play on the sentiments of Nigerians and they garnish it by producing some paid intellectuals like Wole Soyinka to make statements in their favour. For instance, anytime Boko Haram strikes, APC is the first to call on President Jonathan to go to the theatre of war. They do this instead of attacking the root causes of terror – which is spreading fast and fueled by some weird religious fundamentalist ideas. I am acutely disappointed with an Icon like Wole Soyinka. The question I ask is what are his fellow laureates doing in other land? Do they get paid by one Amaechi and turn themselves into his spokesman? I have not seen any Niger Delta Intellectual degenerate to that level. Is it not shameful that an intellectual like Soyinka not get paid for talking in favour of a political Party searching for a soul? This perspicacious resolve on the part of some paid intelligentsia to speak from the access of evil also betrays the ideological hollowness of APC. Amaechi now blames others for his political predicaments as if he was out of his mind when he elected to disparage the No. one citizen of the land. The APC suffers from a phobia of communicating what they need to the people hence they hide under such nebulous virtues as CHANGE. If one may ask CHANGE WHAT? In politics Obama’s ascendancy should teach us a lesson and that is that if you have not served, you do not expect to be served. Let’s look at the leaders. Buhari – the proposed candidate is a coup plotter. It was he who overthrew the Shagari Administration on the 31st of Dec. 1984 and I don’t think he has apologized to Shagari since then. He headed a Petroleum related agency which was found to be corrupt. Since he was overthrown through a palace coup, It is not to my knowledge that Buhari has attended one refresher course. I am not sure Buhari can operate a Computer or the internet for that matter. In this era of globalization, how can such an internet dinosaur lead an enlightened nation of 170 people? Buhari has no ounce of democratic credentials and how can such a man be a leader of democratic institutions? Your guess is as good as mine. AHMED BOLA TINUBU: ruled Lagos State for 8 years. During that period his main achievement was to nurture the alaye boys a euphemism of hemp smoking miscreants who unleashed terror in Lagos. Although Fashola has raised the bar of leadership a bit, things are still horrible. What creates the wrong impression about Lagos is that the City had already been developed several decades ago so any little project that is embarked upon is noticeable. Today, Lagos State has the most expensive Public Schools including the Universities and the likes of Wole Soyinka who are critical of the seemingly daunting social problems have been blinded by the perks of office. They idolize empire builders like the Czar Ahmed Bola Tinubu who has divided Lagos mainland among the alaye boys and has started to divide the sea among interested parties. Wole Soyinka sees everything wrong with the Presidency but sees nothing wrong in the atrocities of LASMA and other revenue collection Agencies who on a daily basis put traders of the igbo stock in hell. Even elections into the leadership of major markets such as Alaba International Markets heavily populated by the igbos was imposed by Ahmed Bola Tinubu. Lagos State is one of the most heavily indebted States in Nigeria. The APC administration has capitalized on the heavily industrialized nature of the State to exploit the system for personal gains. All manner of taxes and levies have been imposed on the inhabitants without corresponding quality service delivery. Tolls are being collected and the Law courts have pronounced that practice illegal but the Fashola administration has turned the law on its head. It is unfortunate that a Senior Advocate of Nigeria could relish such illegalities and justify them under the rubrics of legal niceties. All the so called intelligentsia has given way for agberocracy to thrive and impunity to ride roughshod. I don’t think Nigerians need an alaye capon to rule Nigeria. Nigeria can only be ruled by cool-headed people who are not only humble but parade some quantum of democratic credentials. With a porous ideological grounding, a tyrannical leadership with some voodoo inclination, an easily deceived mass of followers, a woe-be-gone think-thank made up of perverted ideologues, and a soulless party – unguided by common etiquette and norms of behaviour, the APC can only be a synonym for failure. It is only against this background that all the founding members of APC have started to defect to the ruling PDP. The PDP itself is far from perfect but Nigerians will make a choice in 2015. After all, power belongs to the people. Just pause and ponder, Modu Sherrif has left the APC, Fani Kayode has left the Party, Nuhu Ribadu has left APC, Segun Oshoba is set to leave the Party. Earlier the like of Tom Ikimi – that unprincipled politician from Igueben has left the Party. The gale of decamping will continue until the few human beings in the Party will all leave for PDP. The PDP can be likened to Phoenix – a bird with a colorful plumage and a tail of gold and scarlet or purple, blue, and green. The Phoenix has a 500 to 1000 year life-cycle, near the end of which it builds itself a nest of twigs that then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix or phoenix egg arises, reborn anew to live again. The new phoenix is destined to live as long as its old self. The Phoenixs ability to be reborn from its own ashes implies that it is immortal, though in some stories the new Phoenix is merely the offspring of the older one. Stories about the Phoenix are replete in Greek and Egyptian mythologies. For over 15 years since the PDP was founded along other political parties in Nigeria such as AD, and All Peoples Party, which later metamorphosed to the All Nigerian Peoples Party, ANPP, PDP has continued to grow in strength, popularity and grassroots appeal. All other partied that were contemporaneous with the PDP are limping, comatose or defunct. The pertinent question to ask is; what is the secret behind the success of PDP over these years. The answer is not far-fetched as PDP is the only party in Nigeria that has PEOPLE attached as prefix to its name. Ostensibly, PDP remains the only National Party in Nigeria and this is evidenced by its spread, national support base and the mode in which her national officers are appointed. Further, PDP appears to be the only Party in Nigeria that is truly democratic; it is a Party that does not lend itself to the control of some preponderant money bags nor is it controlled by some benevolent spirits wearing the toga of godfathers. PDP is a party for all Nigerians anchored on sound ideology, not some rickety parties with copycat ideological inclinations. Since 1999, the PDP has been committed to the values of tolerance, cooperation, and compromise. In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit. This is the doggedness and fighting spirit that is lacking in other political parties. The famed merger - APC will travel the same rough, thorny and languid road to suffocation given the self-aggrandizing character of its founders. In fact oil and water do not mix. APC and democracy are like water and oil. They cannot mix. Most of the so called best Politicians APC parades are at best expired politicians who command not even an ounce of respect in their own communities. Nigerians are getting wiser by the day and the masses cannot be hoodwinked any longer. In 2015, Nigerians will vote for unity and national integration rather than the disintegration APC is preaching on the pulpit of the devil. Nigerians will vote for continuity of the reforms started by President Jonathan rather than hobnob with coup plotters and desperadoes. Ultimately, Nigeria will be better for it when President Jonathan completes his second tenure in 2019. Idumange John, is a Public Intellectual
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 05:02:26 +0000
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