OPINION BY OLAMIDE FRANCIS: Nigerians have a right to the ‘change of government’ | TheCable
On Monday, October 10, 2022, the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress , Bola Tinubu said: “If they say they want a change of government, just tell them we like to be polite but shut up your mouth”. This is another sign among the many we have already seen that Nigeria’s democracy is endangered. This is not a matter of political parties but the general political clime in Nigeria.
A change of government is the beauty of any democracy. So, I am bewildered at the call by the APC presidential candidate for people wanting a change of government, the same mantra they sided with in 2015, to shut up. Should people not call for a change of government if the current one has disappointed them? Is that not what democracy is all about? The APC must have somehow forgotten that the performance of any administration has consequences on their next outing at the polls.
Speaking about government failure today, the Buhari administration comes to mind. Nigerians used their votes to effect a ‘change of government’ in 2015 because they thought Buhari could fix our three most pressing issues; economy, insecurity and corruption. These three things were what Buhari was elected to fix not any other thing his administration appears to have distracted Nigerians with today.
Winston Churchill is widely regarded as the greatest British prime minister of all time. His extraordinary leadership during WW II cemented his place in British history. He led his country through “its darkest hours”. But guess what? He lost his re-election bid. Voters respected and liked his wartime record but were more cynical of the Conservative Party’s domestic and foreign policy record in the late 1930s.
Also, the 31st president of the United States, Herbert Hoover, was the most preferred in his time. But electoral consequences kicked in in the 1932 election. He was booted out of office for Franklin Roosevelt of the Democratic Party. The only significant issue in the 1932 presidential campaign was the Great Depression.
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