2023 General Elections: Politicians, Deception And Selfishness – Alabi Tunji Micheal (ATM)

2023 General Elections: Politicians, Deception And Selfishness

Alabi Tunji Micheal (ATM)

Constitutionally, Nigeria Politicians are being elected to public offices for a term of four (4) years. Continuity in office is allowed for those who performed brilliantly well while some politicians get re-elected on the basis of the unanimous decisions of the various stakeholders not minding the antecedents of the public officer in question.

State governors can spend a maximum of eight (8) years, that is two (2) terms while legislators can represent their people as many terms as possible.

Sadly, in the Nigeria Political System, the elected few representatives spend two (2) out of the four (4) years of each of their terms to bring dividends of democracy to their people instead of using the whole term to impact positively, the lives of these electorates who voted them into these public offices.

Some politicians do not even perform at all while some under-perform because of certain factors beyond their immediate control.

Some politicians take bank loans, borrow from friends and relatives while some sell their properties to actualise their dreams of winning elections.

So what becomes paramount to them after winning elections is how to repay back the monies borrowed with interests, replace their sold properties with more befitting ones at very expensive places and how to pill up money to finance their future political aspirations.

Again flamboyant life styles like moving around with exotic cars, either rented or bought, having long queues of security details and unnecessary expansion of the number of domestic staff, financing the acquisition of irrelevant Chieftaincy titles amongst others have been the reasons why some of these leaders fail to give back to the society that produced them.

Does your representative fall into any of these categories ?

Most politicians have stopped reaching out to their people since late 2020 because of the need to pill up money to finance their political aspirations.

Insanely, inhumanly and deceptively, these same politicians will surface and be giving the few people within their reach with a token ranging from #2,000 or less while the lucky ones amongst them got #5000 or more,in about six (6) months to the elections proper.

These selfish politicians will flood their political meetings with face caps and shirts. Those fortunate ones who attended political meetings got 2 milk tins of rice with #1000 while their hooligans and thugs are being given bundles of hard drugs to keep disturbing the peace of innocent citizens in the name of wanting to be re-elected to their failed positions of power.

So, when you have a God fearing politician who is relentlessly flooding his constituents with unmatched dividends of democracy, the best we can do for such person is by praying for him to excel and as well support and vote for him en mass when he returns to seek re-election, having been tested and could be trusted with mandates.

Distinguished Senator Dr AbdulFatai Omotayo Buhari falls in these categories of leaders who can always be trusted with political power as many times as possible.

From 2015 to date, there is no single month, at most three (3) months, that you will not hear the name of Senator Fatai Buhari in the news for one unprecedented good thing or the other to his constituents.

He started this year with the training of over eight hundred (800) people from Oyo North Senatorial District and the entire thirty three (33) local government areas of Oyo State on Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

The recently ranked Best Senator in Oyo State, in this year 2022, has equally distributed over a thousand solar powered street lights across Oyo North Senatorial District, facilitated the building of five (5) medical centres, drilled boreholes and facilitated for the rehabilitation of roads abandoned for decades at Saki, Iseyin and Ogbomoso. Namely, Agolabi/Okerete Road in Saki,
Isalu/Ikere Gorge Dam Road in Iseyin and Mallam RA Bello street in Ogbomoso.

On Monday 13th June, 2022, Senator Fatai Buhari again commenced the distribution of fifty (50) units of 500KVA transformers to add to the earlier twenty five (25) units making a total of seventy five (75) units of transformers across the thirteen (13) local government areas of Oyo North senatorial district.

Some politicians will give transformers to communities and put the burden of installation on the residents of such community.

The inability of many communities to meet up with the heavy financial installation demand have left many of these items uselessly abandoned. This is not the case of the Distinguished Senator Dr AbdulFatai Omotayo Buhari.

The performing senator gives and installs every unit of transformers given to any community with constant supervision by his loyal and dedicated team to ensure that quality materials are being used so that beneficiaries can enjoy a lasting use of that facility.

Giving dividends of democracy back to the constituents by Senator Fatai Buhari as election approaches is not to deceive the electorates for their votes , because we are in electioneering period. He is not putting smiles on the faces of his constituents because the general elections is fast approaching.

His antecedents with proven integrity, even before he joined politics, proved that putting smiles on the faces of downtrodden has been his ways of life from years immemorial.

This , the “Omoluabi” legislator will continue tirelessly undistracted to the good people of Oyo North Senatorial District in his sincere appreciation for the massive supports he has always enjoyed from them.

As we approach the period to elect our representatives for another four (4) years (2023-2027), the onerous task bestowed on us to keep enjoying the continuation of more developmental strides to our constituents is electing a leader who holds his people dare to his heart.

Electing a responsible, responsive, proactive and accessible representatives should be devoid of religion, ethnic and regional sentiments but should be based on what the individual can do for his people or what he has been able to do with the earlier mandate given to the person in question.

A known devil, they say, is better than unknown angel.

This is a clarion call to all constituents of voting age to support and turn out in large numbers to vote for Senator Fatai Buhari to represent our district again in 2023-2027 to consolidate the various developmental strides he started years ago for a more prosperous Oyo North.

God bless Oyo North Senatorial District.

God bless Oyo State.

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria