Road to Aso Villa 2023

Road To Aso Villa 2023.

By 

Ahmad Murtala

Ever since, the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu declares his ambition to succeed the incumbent President Buhari, earlier this month, the political sphere: off and online stirred up debates both in favor of Tinubu and the potholes along his way, citing some irrelevant motif that may hinder his success or to any candidate; which are not the paramount of any buyable candidate at the moment; and of course for the electorates.

The intrinsic status quo of our polity entertains those factors that undermine the democracy and the governance—rating region, tribe, religion, age, school attended, above competency and capacity going even further to dig up the ancestral root of a candidate. The end result we are cultivating under this administration says a lot about the mistakes we've committed in the past: from 2015 to date—by using only those yardsticks to scrutinize a candidate. Can we still pelt with our intelligence to subscribe to the same mistake of the past come 2023 which appears a new dawn to our country ?

We imported the American presidential system of government, which is quite expensive and implemented its only cover-page. Multi-party system that compels too much spendings which a saleable candidate who is capable of taking a lead is hindered to contest by the processions—the ticket, the campaign, and the mobilization, but in this context, two major parties are on the run, which the rest endorses the party that has the chances of winning in subterranean maneuver.

The SouthEast has configured and domesticated PDP as its political party since 1999, while APC appears nascent in the region—the weakness of the ruling party and the deterioration of the security across the country under the watch of APC, makes the nascent party lose its credibility far to the NE. Say, the president is to emerge from the region, two impossibilities may arise. The Northern people have been stereotyped and characterize PDP as evil, callous and looters which most of the states in the region are under; and APC has lost its shining plate before the people based on what appears on the ground since coming to power in 2015. No matter the credit of the candidate from the SE, if APC deem it fit to give the flag bearer to the region to entertain Zoning as postulated by some Northern state governors, the chances are its success would be a bottleneck.

The polarization within the spheres of politics that SouthEast translates to secession if not given the chance to rule, it appears that PDP would have to play the same card of the last election, by choosing the running mate from the SouthEast, here the North would draw a line looking at the indices of the carnage their businesses faced in the region. Meanwhile, APC would play the SouthWest and the running mate from the North, perhaps Muslim-Muslim ticket. The result would be determined by the primaries from the parties in the couple of weeks ahead.  

Those countries that have built the social establishments and have a smooth working systems with literally little or no corruption, the age of presidential aspirant is not a matter of concern as we see Biden of US—not like Nigeria when chunks of domestic battle are entangled yet to be addressed. The age of the candidate matters a lot in this context. Tinubu, who appears to be more powerful so far from those who declared their aspiration, is brazenly feeble, if not a good diet and wealth that make politicians appear strong, most of the politicians at the frontline ought to assume coach duties guiding the upcoming ones. We forbid the like we've seen in this administration by encasing the president in the villa and plunge the country into anarchy.

From the view and the color of the game, Atiku Abubakar the former vice president would swiftly take the PDP flag and Tinubu APC. The dice is, both have been dented by the people's court to have maliciously accumulated wealth—having no other alternative polling box for the electorate. If history is to repeat itself, Buhari contested four times before he won, and now Atiku is running on his fifth time is likely to have a smooth ride on the basis of APC losing its credibility in security across the country. 

The extreme thirst for power to fulfill the 'need hierarchy' is not dangerous to the beholder alone, the motive is only to possess the authority without a sketched-architectural blueprint and clear manifestos which will coalesce with the national need. Buhari came on this platter and the end result is unbecoming. The two giants so far have not made it to the public the what-and-how to attend to the tangled problems agonizing every sector. The currently delicate security and imbalanced economy which are at the top, strangling the country by neck—finding it arduous to breathe. We for now, don't need the so-called 'kingmakers' who cannot heed or take advice from the public opinion but become foreign puppets—since, intrinsically, the presumption of superiority as the number-one citizen is established. 

Road to Villa 2023 must from the parties, play the game card that would sew together the polarization across the region. The Villa in 2023 and beyond begs for a head that heeds and having both stick and carrot in his hands, the one who has a clear understanding of foreign policies, and has immediate treatment to our problems both short and long-term solutions. If to suggest best candidates there are multitude of them from SS, SW and NW, both fit in into position of President and Vice President, but for now, let's see the outcome of the parties convention which is the utmost decider.