Constitutional Crisis in Nigeria – A Paradigm of Leadership That is Deficient!
Nigeria for sometime now, especially in the recent months has witnessed serious constitutional misplacements. And these have grossly resulted into a kind of mess that everyone has to be involved in its timely cleansing! The current constitutional crisis is basically as a result of bad leadership. Politics in Nigeria according to history, had in no time been devoid of selfishness, nepotism, malpractices, man know man, moneybags and tyrants to say the least. No wonder the nation has always been stuck in one political quagmire or the other.
I actually stopped writing about politics in Nigeria for an internet blog and publications recently, when I discovered that the people in question refuse to turn a new leaf. But the recent happenings in the country for over two months now have woken my pen in this regard. The question is what is the constitution? Why do we have it? Is it that we don’t have competent hands to handle it anymore? Or we are simply playing politics? The worst of the scenario is that the national assembly is like a paper tiger. I may not really place the blame on them because they are more or less extractions of the “business as usual mentalities” that would preferred to trade the sanctity of our constitution for paltry crap! Most of them I believe are only opportunist, they do not really understand the essence of the mandate they enjoy even those that can still be vouched for have long sacrificed their integrity on the altar of greed. There is really no difference between these so called lawmakers and drunken brats.
The situation of Nigeria has complicated into a hydra headed issue in which one may not know how to approach it. For over two months now, the nation that boasts of over 150 million people has been without a substantial head. This was due to the fact that the ailing president went under the knife with no regards for constitution and the fate of over 150 million people. This illegal act on behalf of the president has since been condemned by all and sundry. The question that is making wave is why did it take so long for the needed change to be effected as regards a substantial president? Some group of people condemned the resolution of the national assembly that recently empowered the vice president as the acting president that it was illegal and unconstitutional in the sense that two wrongs cannot make a right that the infringement on the constitution still exists.
I still do not understand why our leaders cannot get things right in the proper manner it should be done. Imagine the attorney general of the federation, the number one law person that is supposed to protect the integrity of the constitution even desecrating it in his own show of shame! Thanks to the new government for dealing with that in a timely fashion. It is high time we made a change in our leadership, even if it is going to be a revolution as it happened in neighboring African countries.
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