POLITICS AND CHARACTER"CLIFF DBOSS"

politics they say, is a game of numbers.what this implies, politics is somewhat correlated with a numerical strength.politics is oftentimes rooted from the depths of character personifications.though character assessinations could be some of the girmicks employed to demarketing a political opponents, yet, deep down there, the political actors genuiengly knows some politicians with high profile intergrities.treacherous politics is dangeriously destructive to political players that lack the political wills in convincing electorates for an electoral vote .politics in advanced society, is played with sufficient intelligence that enhances the overall development of the society through disinept policies as well as setting up a road map for a successive developmemt both in human capital and infrastructural development. the kind of adopted politics in our democratic system of governance, is disheartining. as such, our political gladiators now uses illed gotten wealth to shot down prospective good democratic leaders with clear intentions out of governance.plutocracy is at higher increase in our Democratic space.this crop of political elite that had siphoned our common wealth , are not relenting fetching the wealth of the economy dried. suprisingly, they hav lord themselves against the larger chunk of the nigeria population with a practicable genrotocracy.they superhead a model of practicing democracy through experinces over meritocracies by which they hav adopted refering the energetic prospective youths to kickstart their political career from the grassroot level.look, experience is never the best teacher but learning remains the best teacher.look, i will tell you this for free.95 percent of our political actors, lacks character.this however, has reenginered gales of defections of political elite moving from one political party to another due to parochial interest and premodial sentiments.nigeria political interest has never necessitated national interest but self agradazement.nigeria politics, is sprung up with bitterness, stomock infrastructures, and ethnic colorations.hence, they are readily available to win elections at all cost.character is one of the elementary aspect for political leadership.looking at mr president's appointments of cabinet members, you will certainly agree with me, that mr president appointed those he felt are politically stable characters that stood by him during the political storm that was about pushing him out of Apc..undoubtably, mr president is a man with some degree of sufficient political intelligence who knows how to reward loyalty and hardwork .not all this busy body political element that jumps ship when the political odds does no longer favours their leaders.looking at the likes of fmr kaduna state governor elrufai, fanni kayode, fayemi kayode of ekiti state, and many more, where unapologetically rejected by mr president due to lack of political will to stand for their political paymaster to the later.similarly, all those political elements that supported Rotimi Amaechi's presidential primaries , non made mr president's ministerial list except that of festus kayamo and simon lalong due to the key roles they both played during the presidential campaign. dear friends, i can tell you this for free, base on intelligent gathering, simon lalong and that of festus kayamo wouldn't hav made tinibu's ministerial list due to the fact that they where strong supporters of Rotimi Amaechi's presidential ambition.don't also forget, their names was submitted for the scond batch of the ministerial list sent to the senate.what this implies is, their names was reconsidered by mr president after he had written them off the ministerial slut for the gallant role they both played during the electioneering period for the apc presidential candidate.even the fmr ogun state governor ibukunle Amuson who was tinubu's political antagonist before the preparatory apc presidential primaries. was also trashed off the ministerial slots.politics is synonimous with strenth of unwavering character.Rotimi Amaechi is one respected politician we hav in our political space that matches intergrity with politics.A man that always stood by his political convintions , must never be forgotten in a hurry in our political landscape. His political belief system is synonimous to that of mr president political sarcacity.they are bold, fearless, articulate, intelligent, and not been afraid in taking lionlike decisions in achieving good political scores.fantastically, current minister for FCT wike, is among this classical political products that knows what they want in politics and possiblly go for the opportunities to write their names in the anals of our political history.simon lalong, is one politician in the north that stood very tall when it comes to politics and intergrity.He is a student of Amaechism like my humble self.political followership must not be centres on what you stand to gain or benefits .but what the public stands to benefit that will bring in national developmental giant strides.Rotimi Amaechi has overtime time demostrated a lionlike political mindset in pursuing his political aspiration for the overall interest of the larger society. He is a man of pedigree, trusted and tested.i will be glad if mr president brings him closer to his government to make meaningful contributions for national development.we can't rule him out of the political equations that ushered in a transitional govt of pmb and how he stood his ground to fight his own brother the then incubent president jonathan out of office even when it was uncontestable he has been penciled down to rot in jail if jonathan had won his relection bid.we can't take away rivers state out of the central politics.Rivers state is a significant state that do not only contribute immensily to the nig economic growth but also contribute execellently in determining who assume the position of the presidency.Amaechi did all that for pmb to emerge as president.wike also stood as a contributory factor that empowered tinubu's presidency .politics and character corelates because the subject matters interdepend.the underlined factor here is nothing but a strength for national behavioural character that engenders unity and progress.many nigeria political jobers are inimical to national unity and development.their powerful abusive character is nothing to write home.they lack national conscience that engineer unity of purpose.they lack character that fosters harmonous relationship between the north and the south.if they love this country's unity, what on earth would engineered Atiku to vie for presidency after pmb's two term in office?all we see from this so called politicians that claims to hav loved Nigeria as a country is greed, and primodial interest over selfless service to the nation.our country is seriously bleeding with poor role models that cut across every sectors of the country.this however, now breeding the younger ones into all sorts of crime illicited behaviours due to bad or negative role models .negativism becomes somewhat practiceable and visible without recourse to national behavioural standard. we must make it a duty for chosen a political leaders with no character defects .we must carry out proper intergrity test for every polician vying for public offices to be able to fish out those criminals that has destroyed the futute of the next generations with their kleptocratic tendencies. we must carry out cognitive test to ascertain the level of intelligence if they are higher, average, or low intelligence for proper placement of service to our father land.we must carry out drug intergrity test to all our public office holders to authenticate the level of sanity in their decision making if such decisions was intoxicated by drugs etc.it is obvious to say that , some of our politicians are not mentally sound to discharge their national obligatory responsibilities to the citizenre as such, their oversight functions becomes a political ground to negotiate for the sharing of our national patrimonies and then, left the country wallow in abject poverty and under development. the electorates must learn how to cast their vote to the candidates that hav the capacity to provide succur to the myraids of challenges we face today as a country with brighter prospect.collectively, all of the problems we face today as a country are surmountable only if we tame and purge ourselves the blood off ethnocism and religious extreamism.we must discard the attitude of playing a vendatta politics off the system.we must wash ourselves off from the factors that generates political ascerbities and therefore enshring love and brotherliness into our national character .nigeria as a country, is our pride. and our pride remains nigeria as a country. my name is clifford igwe .aka cliff dboss.prolific writer, exponent"political psychology, and an entertainer. for more info:mrandmrsdemocracy@gmail.com