NIGERIAN TOP POLITICIANS IN POWER AS THE EMPERORS OF OUR TIME
November 2, 2020 | News
Just like Emperors of old, Nigerian Politicians are not answerable or accountable to anybody. They do not even see the need to do so because in Nigeria, Politicians, particularly those at the top Executive levels of Government, are like supermen, imperial monarchs.
NIGERIAN TOP POLITICIANS IN POWER AS THE EMPERORS OF OUR TIME
Just like Emperors of old, Nigerian Politicians are not answerable or accountable to anybody. They do not even see the need to do so because in Nigeria, Politicians, particularly those at the top Executive levels of Government, are like supermen, imperial monarchs. Like Emperors of old, Nigerian Politicians wield enormous power and control huge resources. They snob, and are arrogant, as they are not answerable to no one. They practically have the world in their pockets and the rest of us at their feet. Men and women fall over each other to seek their attention. For instance, to have a Governor’s phone number is a mark of honour and rear privilege, as noted by Martins Oloja. To have the said Governor call you or reply your text message, makes your day.
However, it is a sad tale, one that I am pained about in my heart, that Nigerian Politicians in power across all levels of Government, have become ancient Emperors, rather than being actual Public Officers. They have become ‘Public Masters’ who can do whatever they please, while the people they are meant to ‘Serve’, have been subjected to being ‘slaves’ that should ‘swallow’ whatever rubbish and anomalies that are being dished out to them practically every day.
The Nigerian Politicians in power at all levels of Government, have become 21st Century Emperors who are above the law, and must be ‘begged’, worshiped, constantly appealed to and watered with enormous praise-singing – just to construct a half-kilometer road, or do anything that would benefit the general masses. And if they eventually construct such a road, or carry out any other project for that matter meant for the people, they have done you a huge favour. If they pay government workers’ salaries arrears, and Pensioners, they are applauded and commended. In fact, for every single thing these Nigerian Politicians in power do/carry out, they are commended and praised for performing their statutory legitimate duties, for which they were elected and appointed to do in the first place. Most of them even go to the extent of shouting their praises in national tabloids, often with photos of what they have done, just to smooth their annoying egos that they are working.
These Nigerian Emperors of our time, must be praised and commended for ‘doing nothing’, or only doing whatever please their fancy, which often times, are never in the interest of their immediate subjects/people, and the general masses. And when Zik Gbemre dares to speak his mind, exposing these Nigerian Politician-turned-Emperors for who, and what they really are, I am termed and regarded as a supposed ‘trouble maker’. Talk about giving a dog a bad name to hang him! You must praise these Nigerian Emperors of this age for doing nothing, to be in their good books. Otherwise, they will continue to see you as their supposed ‘enemy’, and are ready to even use paid writers and blackmailers to carry out a smear campaign against anyone that does not sing their praises, or not in support of their bad governance.
Some persons have taken the occupation of accompanying these Nigerian Emperors wherever they go, and hailing them all kinds of names and titles. These persons, wake up every morning to balance in the sitting-rooms/parlours of their Emperors, waiting for them just to accompany their pay-masters to go out for the day. These hangers-on accompany them to even private visits and social gatherings. Yet, some people are still wondering why Nigeria has remained a backward and developing nation, despite being blessed with vast natural and human resources. It is simply because these visionless and self-centered Nigerian Emperors are the ones who decide what to do, and what not to do, as regards moving the States and nation forward or not. They have continued to use our ‘collective wealth’ as if it is their ‘personal wealth’ because they own the Empire (State/Nation) they control, as well as every resource within that Empire. And until we change this narrative; where so much executive power is concentrated in the hands of these Nigerian Politicians-turned-Emperors, and where Government has been made ‘so attractive’ in the country – we would continue to have one Emperor after another in Nigerian Government spaces, and not actual Public Officers.
Zik Gbemre.
November 2, 2020.
We Mobilize Others To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes
Just like Emperors of old, Nigerian Politicians are not answerable or accountable to anybody. They do not even see the need to do so because in Nigeria, Politicians, particularly those at the top Executive levels of Government, are like supermen, imperial monarchs. Like Emperors of old, Nigerian Politicians wield enormous power and control huge resources. They snob, and are arrogant, as they are not answerable to no one. They practically have the world in their pockets and the rest of us at their feet. Men and women fall over each other to seek their attention. For instance, to have a Governor’s phone number is a mark of honour and rear privilege, as noted by Martins Oloja. To have the said Governor call you or reply your text message, makes your day.
However, it is a sad tale, one that I am pained about in my heart, that Nigerian Politicians in power across all levels of Government, have become ancient Emperors, rather than being actual Public Officers. They have become ‘Public Masters’ who can do whatever they please, while the people they are meant to ‘Serve’, have been subjected to being ‘slaves’ that should ‘swallow’ whatever rubbish and anomalies that are being dished out to them practically every day.
The Nigerian Politicians in power at all levels of Government, have become 21st Century Emperors who are above the law, and must be ‘begged’, worshiped, constantly appealed to and watered with enormous praise-singing – just to construct a half-kilometer road, or do anything that would benefit the general masses. And if they eventually construct such a road, or carry out any other project for that matter meant for the people, they have done you a huge favour. If they pay government workers’ salaries arrears, and Pensioners, they are applauded and commended. In fact, for every single thing these Nigerian Politicians in power do/carry out, they are commended and praised for performing their statutory legitimate duties, for which they were elected and appointed to do in the first place. Most of them even go to the extent of shouting their praises in national tabloids, often with photos of what they have done, just to smooth their annoying egos that they are working.
These Nigerian Emperors of our time, must be praised and commended for ‘doing nothing’, or only doing whatever please their fancy, which often times, are never in the interest of their immediate subjects/people, and the general masses. And when Zik Gbemre dares to speak his mind, exposing these Nigerian Politician-turned-Emperors for who, and what they really are, I am termed and regarded as a supposed ‘trouble maker’. Talk about giving a dog a bad name to hang him! You must praise these Nigerian Emperors of this age for doing nothing, to be in their good books. Otherwise, they will continue to see you as their supposed ‘enemy’, and are ready to even use paid writers and blackmailers to carry out a smear campaign against anyone that does not sing their praises, or not in support of their bad governance.
Some persons have taken the occupation of accompanying these Nigerian Emperors wherever they go, and hailing them all kinds of names and titles. These persons, wake up every morning to balance in the sitting-rooms/parlours of their Emperors, waiting for them just to accompany their pay-masters to go out for the day. These hangers-on accompany them to even private visits and social gatherings. Yet, some people are still wondering why Nigeria has remained a backward and developing nation, despite being blessed with vast natural and human resources. It is simply because these visionless and self-centered Nigerian Emperors are the ones who decide what to do, and what not to do, as regards moving the States and nation forward or not. They have continued to use our ‘collective wealth’ as if it is their ‘personal wealth’ because they own the Empire (State/Nation) they control, as well as every resource within that Empire. And until we change this narrative; where so much executive power is concentrated in the hands of these Nigerian Politicians-turned-Emperors, and where Government has been made ‘so attractive’ in the country – we would continue to have one Emperor after another in Nigerian Government spaces, and not actual Public Officers.
Zik Gbemre.
November 2, 2020.
We Mobilize Others To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes