“Nigerian politics does not demand intelligence, but agbero brawns. The more grammar you speak, the farther the distance between you and the people.”
This was the banter of a friend; a very educated and informed one, but sadly this is the perception of many Nigerians as well.
I sat in my nest that afternoon wondering why we are often led by the worst of us; as if we are destined for a certain doom. The product of my ratiocination was a resolve that despite the normality of mediocrity here, we must speak the “grammar of disciplined politics” until the people become acculturated, and the so-called distance bridged.
As a matter of fact, Nigeria has just a handful of leaders, but a rowdy crowd of politicians.
I had a one-to-one interview with Kingsley Moghalu, presidential candidate of the Young Progressive Party (YPP), and he seemed not to covet the title “politician”….
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