Campaigns For The 2023 Elections Should Be In The Cemetery
Since the inception of the administration of Gen. Muhammdu Buhari, the nation has witnessed an unprecedented rise in insecurity, ranging from the activities of bandits to kidnappers, farmers’/herders clashes', IPOB/ESN/Unknown Gunmen, and Boko Haram, although Boko Haram existed before his administration.
The president survived an election scare and was elected for a second term in 2019 on the promise to improve the fight against insecurity and ensure the security of the people. That has not happened. Matter of fact, it has gone from bad to worse.
There is no family in Nigeria today, that is not affected directly or indirectly by the insecurity prevalent in the country, including this writer who but for luck would have been on that ill-fated Kaduna bound train, and his sister was shot by bandits on the Kaduna-Abuja road.
Nigerians are in awe of the inability of the president despite his experience as a former military general and the massive criticism of the former administration by him. Nigerians thought this would end their insecurity woes. Wishful thinking indeed.
The 2023 Election is around the corner and politicians have been travelling around the country to garner support. Typical of their nature, they are promising to bring heaven on earth to Nigerians; sweet, and empty promises.
After the delegates have chosen the candidates they want, the politicians must do more than visit the people in different parts of the country to solicit for votes. They must also visit the cemeteries around the country. At the cemetery are laymen, women, and children who have been failed by their country and leaders; there, the politicians shall find their supporters and opponents, whose lives have been cut short by the rampaging insecurity.
For the 2023 elections, Nigerians must insist that a yardstick to vote anyone into an elective office, is a visit to the cemetery by the vote seeker(s). Campaigns must be conducted in the cemetery; that is where the voters are.