“A politician who detaches himself from the masses and relies on physical structures is only embarking on a fruitless political journey,” ―G. Ugo Ulasi
From best practices, refined worldviews, events, and trending developments around the globe, the masses have generally adjudged the owners of the sovereignty and power of their nations. This is sufficiently attested by how easily partisan political structures bow to the people’s resistance whenever a political leader is rejected, and have to contend with the cohesive resistance of the masses.
A physical structure deserted by human structure is as good as a desolate place. A political party or leader may have physical structures nationwide but would be like lonely owls on the rooftops if the masses find them uninspiring.
Imagine an Army General deserted on the Frontline by his lieutenants. Effectively that would be akin to the technical demobilization/abandonment of all physical platforms— airborne, seaborne, and earthborn.
When Ibrahim Babangida stepped aside as the military president of the era, it was not because of the army’s insufficient physical structures around the country but because the platforms lost their relevance in the face of the people’s collective will.
Sani Abacha tried the tenure elongation game and suffered a similar fate, which was even worsened by fatal ripple effects that culminated in his death.
The physical structures of the PDP could not secure OBJ’s third-term plans because it was never backed by the requisite human structures.
About a year into office as Prime Minister of Japan, Yoshino Mori was forced out of the office around 2003 for playing golf for less than ten minutes after office hours upon getting the sad news of the death of five Japanese students in a water accident. He apologized for his irresponsible behavior for a few days and added to the passionate pleadings from the parliamentarians to the Japanese citizens. The masses stuck to their guns, and Mr. Mori vacated his office. The party structures upon which he ascended to power could do nothing for him in such dare situations where only the human structures of the people were all that mattered. We can inexhaustibly go on and on.
Ordinarily, topics of this nature do not need extensive support
materials for emphasis, save for the benefit/enlightenment of the misguided. Hence, it is human structures that determine the outcome of elections, not physical structures. That is why a candidate could manipulate his party’s physical structures and emerge the winner in a primary election only to be rejected by his immediate constituency at the general polls.
Ignore the power of human structures to your perils! An Arrowhead of a political iron throne would eventually be bored to death if human structures do not pay him homage.
Has anyone considered the fact of an incumbent leader losing an election? Could it be because his physical structures suddenly disappeared? No. It must be because the masses rejected him.
The most recent Osun state governorship election is another evidence of the superior edge of human structures. The story is public knowledge.
A politician who detaches himself from the masses and relies on physical structures is only embarking on a fruitless political journey.
It is conversely jejune on a serious note to argue against an empirical fact in favour of some clearly-distortive, campaign season rhetorics, only aimed at further deepening the confusions of the uninformed.
Any bold step towards the desired change must essentially begin with a bold realignment with the truth. Let the political elites be warned that the lies that they had fed their blind followers in the past were the reason for today’s retardation and decay in Nigeria. And it is in their interest to know that a new wave of sociopolitical reawakening has dawned on the polity.
A new dawn is here with a new light for more clarity. The sad news for liars is that they have no hiding place any longer. Nigerians now know the architects of their dark days gone by.
And they are now saying, “Never again!”
■ Dr. C. Ugochukwu Ulasi is the West African Pilot Medical Correspondent and Analyst, and could be reached at +234 – 8077516282
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