Good Nigerians urged to join politics
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A chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State has urged good Nigerians not to shy away from participating in partisan politics in the country. Sylvester Okonkwo, a former Governorship aspirant of PDP in the last Anambra State governorship election, told Factnewsonline that because nature abhors vacuum, that bad people would take over and dominate the country’s politics if the good ones stay away.
He was reacting to the popular statement which suggests that politics is a dirty game. He said: “If good people are not involved in politics, then bad people will take over. There is no vacuum in life. But the truth is that the more good men get involved, they will be able to carry the message that the desire to lead is not a do or die affair.”
Okonkwo also spoke on the issue of security, which is currently ravaging parts of the country, saying that the time has come when Nigerians must learn to be their brothers’ keeper. His words: “The issue is that we have a new phenomenon that is too destructive of security, each and every one of us must be a part of solving the problem. Be the Police man in your neighbourhood. Be the watch man over your daughter; over your son; over your neighbours son and family”.
Speaking further on politics, Okonkwo, who is also a business man, blamed people he said were playing politics with the issue of insecurity, as well as those who constantly blame the President over, arguing that they were missing the point. “What we have is a threat to all of us, and so where the government is not doing right and you are criticising, it ought to be constructive” he said.
He therefore stated that those criticising President Goodluck Jonathan on the issue were missing the point. He wondered what they expected the President to do under a situation where the country’s security infrastructures were deliberately ran down by past rulers.
He therefore said that those criticising the President on the matter were those who did not understand that the issue of security was the responsibility of everyone in the country.
He also found words for people who, according to him, through their way of criticism, were demeaning the office of the country’s President. “Partisan politics should not take us to the low level of denigrating the office of our President. If you want to criticise the President, the language of your criticism must not to be despiteful of the office of the President, not to talk of the person of the President” he said.
Chief Sylvester Okonkwo is the MD/CEO of Chinto Technology Limited.
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