In the next Presidential elections, the race for public office is heating up. While many recent charges have reeked of nefarious play. We've witnessed a cascade of cases, including the River state accountant general, who despite winning the PDP governorship primary was shortly proclaimed wanted by the EFCC for allegedly stealing #117 billion.
Soon it was Rochas Okorocha, the former governor of Imo state, whose presidential ambitions is vacillating after stealing #2.9 billion in public monies while in office.
In like manner, a committee has been formed to probe the former Lagos State Governor's eligibility, trailing allegations swirling over Tinubu's ability to run for President in 2023 over falsifying education qualifications.
While the All Progressive Party (APC) on its end are huddling calculated political propaganda against each other in a manhunt for public office, inversely, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has been caught in a mineshaft of controversies and meandering of aspirants allegedly bribing supposed delegates (people moved by their stomach) to be flagbearers in the coming elections. Two things are at stake here either cash and carry your ticket or relinquish your political aspiration. Not even the former Kaduna State legislator and governorship aspirant Shehu Sani could outwit the delegates (bandits).
Is it safe to conclude that every flagbearer for each political party has bribed their way into positions of power and influence? And are you strongly behind voting for such people? You may ask who these delegates are?
They are voted on by party members within the parties on their behalf to represent them in choosing presidential and governorship candidates.
This might be a big indication that our agitation of the "Not So Young to Run" is a ruse. Unless you are willing to play cash-and-carry politics and use foreign currency to bribe these delegates, and willing to play dirty politics our generation will not contest in politics.