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.