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SELECTIVE ADVANTAGE: THE ANTITHESIS TO NIGERIA’S QUEST FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE


It's obvious that Nigerians have, over the years, developed a very dangerous habit of politicising the issue of corruption and good governance. Nigerians defend the thieves from their "camps" or keep quiet when such matters come up. Yes, all region/people of Nigeria are guilty of defending bad and hurtful behavior when the looter /thief is from their area or political party. It's always been like that with us. It is a big point that is on both sides of Nigeria's political divides.
 
When Saraki left Jonathan and PDP before the last election, he suddenly became a "progressive" and "patriot" to some political commentators but when he stepped on powerful toes in APC, they suddenly remembered he was a "thief" and started calling for his head. Once they thought they had him cornered, many started to bet that his tenure as Senate President would end in a matter of days, but today, the man is waxing even stronger as some of us had predicted. No be Nigeria we dey again? 
 
If Dasuki and his fellows joined APC now and they are accepted by the party leadership today, most of their critics would suddenly lose their voice. They would sing a new tune! 
 
We all saw how those haunting Dasuki and others today were defending Amaechi despite the disappearance of N54bn in Rivers State in the few months preceding the last election and the weighty allegations of corruption that were subsequently levelled against him before TV cameras. Those allegations remain unaddressed till today except for the political rhetoric and abuse of Wike who empaneled the Judicial Commission of Enquiry and asked them to televise their sittings so the world could see and judge for itself. We were simply not interested! Amaechi is a hero as far as we care!  But if Amaechi, in his usual character, steps on powerful toes in the APC and controversy happens tomorrow, those who defended him today would suddenly start to call him thief and would tell us other things we don't know about him.
 
That's the type of partisan sentiment that drives anti-corruption writings, the Nigerian type. Today, the only 'thieves' in Nigeria are the PDP officials whilst the others are saints. ‎I laugh but it's a pity. 
  
It's both political and ethnic. People will defend those from their "camp" no matter how indefensible. In the United States, the Democrats or Republicans would ‎not defend corruption even if the culprit happens to be the Chairman of their party. 
 
Until we get to the point where we are blind to the question of party affiliation ‎or ethnic origin in our 'fight' against corruption and good governance, we'll only be deceiving ourselves to say we're fighting corruption or fighting for good governance.
 
When one defends an individual or group of people who have behaved or done bad things that hurt us as a nation/country and people that person is emboldening the bad behavior. 
 
When are we going to collectively say enough? It's, all the bad things, going on for way too long. 

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