How Nigerians politicians pay 60bn dollar yearly as political Royalty to godsfathers

By Okwo romeon

Welcome to this piece I coined the period of political idioiticrazy ,or what I relate as the “Greek gift of the Nigerian politicians” I advised you not to mind the new coined lexicon but just parole the write up with less expectation as you may not get the Rubben Abatti sense deep of constructed grammar and phases neither will you see,the Dele Momodu flow of tenses as just a big fans of these two great Columnist,it is my belief,I will met one of them one day by divine intervention.

The political idiotcrkczy is a period where politicians calculate how much they had spend on politics and when they should scoop the back the money .
It is a period that is characterizes by so many tricks by the politicians and their god fathers,at time,the ups and downs in this equilibrium is measures by political -fall -out among the donors and the receiver.
The receiver is automatically transform as supper spender after his electoral victory as state fund become his treasury luck.from local government councilor to all others political offices in the country,the political market is same.

The period also offer a handful time of opportunity for politicians to weight theirs huge expenditures after the elections victories and drawn out the next plan of action on how they should scoop back their monies.
I can’t say ,this period is known over the World as my assertion was based on the political experience and happenings in the last two decades of democracy experiment among my country men.

Over the time,we saw,a governor of state been kidnapped by his political god father( Ngigi case study) either because the governor refused to keep to the terms of their agreements or clandestine issues the public is not privy to.
We seen godfathers deny a siting governor second term-ticket even when the masses accept the good performance of the governor but because of interest of one man and the brand of politics known with the people,the governor eventually fall out with gods father and that crumble the face of a vision politician in Southwest (Amobode case study).

we have also seen how some governors designed a special project or contacts running into billion of Naira to settle God father,most at time,this contacts never exist but ceremonies were stage to flanked off the projects to the admiration of the people,the Benin-Asaba Express way is a case study in view.
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we seen a cases of gods fathers who were out of office but been paid a full salary package of a sitting governor with additional allowance by the god son (Kwara state and others) remind us of these memorable savory
In Nigeria,thuggery is better than education as thugs are field commander of the politicians and we have seen empty headed thugs nominated for a political appointments with or without qualification because of such person political rascality.

The political idiotcrkczy is the inner heat of politics ,a “Royal Rainbow” among political gladiators who jostled for position and contacts at the sharing table over an elections victory.
A situation that has bend the curve of our social and economic developments for decades,as of last count in April 2019,over 985 abandon projects were discovered by the #PMB led administration between 1999 and now,most of these projects according to reports,were projects awarded to political godfathers who companies offices existed only on the contract letters headed papers and over 60 billions of Naira paid to this contractors go down the drain.

No wonder,Nigeria can best be described as the country with the abandoned projects or called it the barn of wastefulness, you may be right.
The Chinese and Lebanese are here because they knew they can get the contract, paid the percentage to their collaborators, abandon the project and go away with the capital flight.This had being the sorry state of our country.In every four years,we turn out leaders,leaders who major aim is to break the circle of their family and friends poverties and climb to the next level of richness,leaders who only mourn the killings of their country men with laughters at the other side of their joor.

One minute silence for departed souls alone this year at National Assembly is over hundred times and still counting and they is no law drafted by the parliament that will Criminalized the bandits and killer herdmen.
The nation center of democracy has became congregation of O-yes-members while the nation breed.

Although I can’t say with deep satisfaction going by public poll that, the #PMB led APC government had traded better in governance than the previous administration but all I can said is that, they is room for better improvement if the needful is done.The body language of Mr.President must change,the voices of Nigerians must be heard,sectionalism don’t help any nation and the APC government should stop setting a precedent that will be used as roadmap for others incoming presidents.

As a matter of important,the federal government should fine tune how the country should continue to exist as one entity,maybe,the Amalgamation law of 1914 has expired,with secessionist springing across the country,it is time for the government to look into the various committees set up by past and this government to restructure the federation.

Now that #PMB had settled the gods fathers that push away his APC perceived evils maquarade called the People Democratic Party (PDP), it time for the people President to refocus.
We all want to trust our Mr President again but such trust must be earn by his policy formulation,the youths whom make up the largest percentage must be carry along,jobs must been provide,social Welfare to youths and vulnerable person must be guarantee and security of live and property of Nigerians should top the government periority.

The bullion van traders,and others must had give much for your victory in 2015 and subsequent yet, none of them can swear by the holy books or the Amadiaho or the Sango they worship secretly that they have not taken more than enough from our public cake under your watch.
This is few of the reasons,Mr President must let them go now!, we need genius men with a balance belief of Mr President if when the president recent action of calling a section of the country “a dot in circle” is not what we expect from a father of the nation
Men and women whose deposition is to salvage this nation from current political and insecurity crisis is what we deserve.These people are spread around the country,they may not be technocrat per se but they have the common sense we need to move the nation forward.

As the October first draw closer,many Nigerians like myself are worried on what hope lie ahead for our country as Nigerians are more divided now than ever,will the independent anniversary been the last one we would have as a nation?,as the next independent celebration will be 2022,a year of transition,would the tiny fiber holding us as nation sustain the momentum of the separatist is a worry to reckon about.

Nigerians await what action #PMB will be taken to bring back the hope in this #Nextlevel.
we wait to see if the actions of our President will still give him our mass excursion back home to Duara come 2023 like the last one we just gave him back to the Villa.
I rest my case.
Romeon okwo is the Associate Editor Century Newspaper and public affairs commentator, he write from Lagos.email-bonromeon@yahoo.com,Tel 080 3580 9004 sms only.