The ethic of change requires that those who fought murderously against change are not allowed to become decision makers in the party of change
Last week, we concluded that fighting corruption would require addressing the facilitation of corruption by a political structure that creates utter alienation between the citizenry and government, in particular the destruction of the country’s tradition of federal governance and installation over the years of a unitary governance structure and culture. We also warned the new president against surrendering to any effort to blackmail him by those who want to be seen as heroes of the Jonathan national dialogue of 2014 and of the cosmetic devolution in the constitutional amendments recently rejected by President Jonathan.
The argument in this respect is that recommendations from the Jonathan national conference and the amendments from the departing legislature lack proper democratic participation by citizens, especially that both lack opportunity for citizen participation by the way of referendum. Following the axiom of “What is worth doing at all is worth doing well,” the president should be given the opportunity to employ a proper process and move away from the notion that any respectable federal system can be sustained with federal allocation to federating units from rents collection. The column today will continue the discussion of implications of Change Manifesto for the way the country is governed by the new president and the All Progressives Congress in the next four years.
Given the mass defection from the PDP to the APC since the presidential election, it is important for the new president and his party to be cautious about politicians who are afraid of opposition and thus need to rush to every new party that is in power. It is normal for the wary to pay attention to the rush to the new governing party by those who served as cheer leaders in the last sixteen years to the PDP in its personalisation of the state.
A Yoruba proverb:Agbara ojo ko nioun o nii w’ole, onile ni ko nii gba fun un(Flood from rain does not shy away from destroying houses, it is the landlords that must guard against this) is worth the attention of the new president and his party. Those who participated in encouraging the PDP to disregard and misjudge the citizenry to the point of losing citizens’ confidence may not be coming to the president’s party because they believe in the platform of change. The exodus from the party of yesterday to the party of today may be because the defectors or carpet crossers, to put it euphemistically, are afraid of not having immediate access to a new political patronage network. The ethic of change requires that those who fought murderously against change are not allowed to become decision makers in the party of change. Defectors would need to be watched, not necessarily by leaving them with “empty stomachs” as President Jonathan has feared while APC members are overfed from the loot of office, but principally because there should be no room for feeding even APC party members from what in normal circumstances is meant to be used to make life easier for all citizens.
It is reassuring that the president-elect has already announced to those running around Abuja, Kaduna, and Daura for ministerial positions that he will require that every minister in his government declare his or her assets. But care must be taken to go beyond asset declaration as a mere symbolic action. Each candidate for ministerial position must be made to show proof of how he or she came about the assets declared. This should include proof of taxes paid by candidates for ministerial positions. Many of our ministers and governors in the past had declared assets without showing any proof of source of the property they claimed on their asset declaration forms. Such requirement is likely to keep those who had benefited from corruption in the past from becoming major public policy makers in the government of change.
Since the most visible aspect of governance by the PDP in the last sixteen years has been the rule of impunity as distinct from the rule of law, the new president must lead by the power of example, rather than the example of power, which was the core characteristic of PDP’s governance style from Obasanjo to Jonathan. There should be no room for the politics of vindictiveness and marginalisation in the government of President Buhari. Regardless of who voted for whom, General Buhari has become the president of Nigeria the moment he had the majority required for gaining that office. No section of Nigeria must be made to experience the marginalisation that the Yoruba region experienced in the last six years in particular.


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