IT IS NOT ABOUT DEBATE

By C.C Anaedu

Those clamouring for Presidential Debate should also know that it is not all about debate. How good you are in a debate does not determine your performance in Government. Yes, Knowledge is good , It is all about wisdom. Because you can be very knowledgeable and yet be a failure. But you cannot fail with Wisdom. No wonder the Holy Scriptures say that; Wisdom is the Principal thing..Prov. 4v7. Behind every successful endeavour is WISDOM.

KNOWLEDGE is like Intelligence, WISDOM is like SKILL or TACT. *Wisdom Is The Principal Thing. ... Knowledge is the accumulation of information, understanding is the grasping, comprehension and interpretation of that information, but wisdom is the application of the information which one understands.* The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn't know *how to* go to the city.. Ecclesiastics 10v15. It is easy for one to say that unemployment has exponentially increased to 20.9m, but then, Did they tell us how to reduce unemployment? It is easy for one to say Nigeria has over 87 million people living in extreme poverty, so because of that he will reduce poverty or industrialize Nigeria. but Did he tell us HOW TO reduce the said poverty, what and what are his policies, action plans, he will introduce to reduce the extreme poverty?

Nigeria needs first and foremost a President that is sincere, two, willing to do good and fight for what is right even in the face of threat or death, third, well acquainted with details of WHAT and HOW to do or achieve what he has as a plan, fourth, non ribalistic, or nepotic ,fifth, non religious in his ways.

Debate is good but, how many of those participants actually present HOW TO DO WHAT THEY ARE SAYING? Every failure is as a result of lack of wisdom, and every failed leadership is as a result of lack of wisdom also every successful leadership is as a result of presence of Wisdom. That is why *John C. Maxwell*; says " _Everything rises and fall on leadership "._ If Nigerians are sincerely interested in making a positive change, if Nigerians are illuminated for true transformation in this 21st century, then there MUST be a paradigm shift from this identical twins called PDP and APC. I have been privileged to listen to over 25 Presidential candidates, and I can tell you that we have some interesting intelligentsia good enough to bring this change. But that is not going to happen because Democracy is a game of numbers and vast majority of Nigeria are either illiterates or unenlightened or educated blind people. So HOW WILL THIS CHANGE COME?

C.C Anaedu

Stop quoting d scriptures to achieve your sinister agenda.

How can you claim to have wisdom when you are afraid of debate? Why would you want people to prefer you above other candidates when you are afraid of saying/showing what you have upstairs.

Are you wiser than the advanced countries where debates are used?

Don't you know that debates reveals the mental alertness and ability to cope with pressure of d candidates.

If your sponsor is afraid of debate, tell him to retire to his village.

Thank you for this. I said non of the debaters provided how(strategy) they would solve the problems, they were all talikng about the problem, and some funny people were all clapping. I don't need to watch the debate to know Nigeria problem, all I heard was I will revive manufacturing. The unintelligent youths couldnot ask how they?. We need practical solutions to the prpblems, and not noises making round everywhere.

I find it difficult to see youth who questions most of the bogus promises by the political elites. All I hear is mr A won the debate when all the participants were clueless, and do not know how to solve the stated problems. Majority of the youths are as clueless as their leaders. Smh for Nigeria.

My take is that anyone who cannot explain how he can lead us out of the forest, does not know the road.

Full stop.

Let Nigerian be illuminated, enlightened and see light in the dark world. Debate or no debate does not guarantee good governance.