Of course, We might blame the people in power for not seeing through all these, but what we fail to understand is that these people are economically unintelligent to lead or address the crises in the nation especially because the people who voted for them were not even informed enough to make the right decisions.
Originally, the system of government is designed to create a populace that can transfer power and delegate functionalities to the people who have been chosen to lead in a representative government. But these people are not representing or leading, they've transcended from being chosen leaders to being established rulers, changing the system immediately after they're elected while using their power and the resources at their behest to establish themselves financially.
Irrespective of this obvious phenomenon
.....these same people are still being recycled, repackaged, and rebranded for the people, to vote them in again. Now people can see through this charade, at least 30 to 40% of the populace can see this, but the remaining 60 to 70% might not because of ignorance, illiteracy, bribery, corruption, or even manipulation.
How they manage to achieve this is by eliminating every competition and potential by blocking the chances of better people who might come into power and change governance for good. People who are meant and qualified for governance are often censored. This is because the old system abhors change.
People who are enlightened and educated understand this
......but even part of these people are now being controlled using the party system, religion as well as tribal sentiments. The central bank of Nigeria for example is in its worst performance since it was established in the military era, but people are not seeing that the problem stems from the ineptitude of the existing government.
For example, the Nigerian government disbursed billions of naira for the redesigning of new currencies, but the central bank as an economic and financial establishment has failed in its duties, by enacting so many failed monetary policies.
The logical thing is to dissolve the heads and employ different hands
.....but the government that brought the system leaders into place is probably one of the most ineffective governments in the history of Nigeria. In reality, the Gulf in class in people are just so big, some people still allow tribal sentiment influence their choice of personnel to change government.
In the history of Nigeria, power is threatening to change hands and this is because a large number of the populace are beginning to see through the charade. This is because the threat of extinction that threatens Survival is why people are beginning to ditch their ignorance to see if they can enact change that can remove incompetent Competition in governance.
Exposure To Information & Knowledge
This only explains that the right way to keep people in ignorance and control them is to give them just the right amount of information and expose them to minimal resources and survival. But these politicians have not done this.
They've completely taken away people's accessibility to resources that ensure a minimal level of survival through constant embezzlement of public funds, due to this, even people who were once ignorant are now seeking the right knowledge to ensure they forestall change in the next election that might forestall the right kind of change. However, this doesn't mean that the whole populace will change.
There are still people whose choices will be influenced by the gimmicks of personnel in power,especially those in abject poverty, and will do anything for anyone who puts food on their table, whether they realize it's these same people who put them in that position in the first place
I believe poverty creates causality
.....which establishes manipulation and gullibility. If people are taken out of poverty in Nigeria, it'll change the way they act or behave, and their political beliefs, while establishing a certain kind of change in their choices of government.
However, people Cannot be taken out of poverty and this is because they're inside a system created to maintain a certain level of poverty that would ensure they remained controlled forever. This means that irrespective of financial status, people should seek permanent change, rather than waiting for them to be firstly financially empowered or sentimentally freed before they can enact change.
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