MIRRORS: POSTERITY CALLS: BEYOND THE STUDENTS POLITICS IS A NATIONAL POLITICS

Sinach

Published Date: Jun 19, 2024

Last Updated: 19 June 2024

POSTERITY CALLS: BEYOND THE STUDENTS POLITICS IS A NATIONAL POLITICS

Is it possible to win a student election without tearing down your opponents, I do not know! But the real tragedy is that we may never find out. For the one university of national unity,our prestigious UofA on which the rest of the Nigeria depends to build a model for ideal governance has itself been corrupted.

The university is now becoming a reflection of the outside world rather than the laboratory in which solutions to its many ills may be developed. We as students can now be aptly described as hypocrites, we criticise with righteous indignation the ills we see in the outside world then we come back home to re-enact the same drama of immorality,what has gotten into the heads of our leaders?

How can it be right to spend our time as campaigners looking for ways to impugn the characters of our opposing candidates rather than trying to convince the electorate of the sterling character of our desired aspirant? Is mudslinging now so much a part of our idea of the electoral process that we no longer see anything wrong with it?
I doubt these are the leaders, Nigeria is going to be having,because wtf!

The reality is that no matter how many of the opponents’ secrets we dig out for public airing, no matter how many testimonies we get of the opponents ill-doings, no matter how much we try to paint the other person as the worst human being to ever be born onto the planet earth, it does not in any way show that our candidate is a better person. So why do we expend so much energy slinging election mud?

The only true achievement of this ignoble habit is that it gives credence to the old cliché “politics is a dirty game”. It ensures that enmity is a natural result of every new cycle of elections, that co-operation on any issue even after the elections by our aspirants and their bevies of supporters is a laughable idea. It tars us with the same brush as our irresponsible politicians in this country of ours that has placed itself firmly on the shelf of the world’s most corrupt nations.

It plants the fear of the future firmly in the hearts of all who see enough to ask; are they the future of Nigeria? Youths who are already training themselves to take over the reins of electoral depravities such as blackmail, lies and betrayal from our current crop of unethical politicians. If even at the university level, we have learned to use every means available to us including the social media in all its forms as well as word of mouth to tear down opposing candidates, what hope can there be for this country.

To all those who have turned the student union page into a weapon to discredit opposing candidates, to all those who plant and spread stories of the ‘so called’ misdeeds of the other aspirants to returning students and freshmen alike, to all those who seek to climb to the top by knocking down others on their way and climbing over their backs, remember, that there is a law greater than the one in the constitution, and as adherents to the principal of karma would tell you, there would always be a repercussion.

I hereby advise the electorate,my 93.3% students voice to take a bit of logical thinking in choosing their desired candidate; any candidate who cannot prove his worthiness without first stating the unworthiness of his opponents cannot possibly have much to offer. They should drink deep or taste not the Perian spring.