Politics of imposition must end – Rep
Hon Shina Peller, a member of the House of Representatives, has said Nigeria must stop the politics of imposition and anointing of candidates in order to move forward. Peller, who is the National Coordinator, Lead Generation Initiative (LGI), stated this during the official unveiling of strategic partnership between Lead Generation Initiative and We2gedaNG in Lagos, […]
Hon Shina Peller, a member of the House of Representatives, has said Nigeria must stop the politics of imposition and anointing of candidates in order to move forward.
Peller, who is the National Coordinator, Lead Generation Initiative (LGI), stated this during the official unveiling of strategic partnership between Lead Generation Initiative and We2gedaNG in Lagos, on Saturday.
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He reiterated that the politics of anointing and imposing candidates on the electorates by political godfathers should be discouraged and jettisoned.
The lawmaker said the focus should be on building strong institutions that will last forever rather than powerful individuals who have turned themselves to gods on earth.
He said, “Our lamentation about lack of good leadership in Nigeria has been going on for a very long time with no desirable change. What we must take note of is that we can’t achieve the change that we so desire by fighting the present reality, we must build a new system that will make the present system obsolete.
“You may want to ask, how do we achieve this? Yes, we can address and achieve this by changing our style of politics of anointing and imposing candidates on the electorates. We are now in a century where political godfatherism and imposition should be discouraged and jettisoned.
“It is high time we focused on building strong institutions that will last forever rather than powerful individuals who have turned themselves to gods on earth,” he said.
Speaking also, Chairman, Board of Trustees, Ibrahim Hussein Abdulkarim, said money politics had done great disservice to the country; hence, more hands were needed to get it fixed.
He stated that the founding fathers were not thinking of creating a Nigeria for Nigerians but for Africans.
The Chairman said that the movement is not only about them but for the generations yet unborn.