In a democracy citizens chose their representatives by voting. But
the effectiveness of a single vote is so tiny that ordinary citizen might seem
to have little reason to go to the polls. In such situation voting could be
seen as cheap, but voting intelligently is costly.
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choices
are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy therefore is
education. The PDP primaries in Delta State showed clearly that people are more
educated now and are determined to take their future in their hands. The delegates were more enlightened than
yesterday that they collectively revolted against an antediluvian regime.
Lyndon B. Johnson says “vote is the most powerful instrument ever
devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls
which imprison men because they are different from other men.”
So PDP delegates in Delta State have spoken that they don’t want
to be governed by those who cannot change their common existence but they want
their economy to change, self-sufficient and self-dependent. It is then safe to
say that the PDP votes for Ifeanyi Okowa are to break the walls of politics of sticks without carrots and social-injustice.
Criss Jami says “It is the philosophers, theologians, and
evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong
convictions that they represent. Whereas voting is the only thing the average
person can do to force everyone to live how they would prefer.
A simple vote is among the largest yet most acceptable forms of
bigotry and that is because people play the card only when they feel that in
doing so it conveniences themselves. The delegates have voted telling the
entire world how they want to co-habit the remaining part of their lives,
disassociating themselves from the past.
Ifeanyi Okowa’s success is a combination of electors’ conviction, hard
work, dogged determination and God’s ornament of favour in his life.
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