Many citizens of backward ridden nations around the world keep looking for well organized and developed countries to migrate/relocate to without understanding that no country has ever advanced beyond contributions of her citizens.
All the countries that caught your fancy and eagerness to go for vacation or medical tourism or greener pastures or security are made prosperous, peaceful, pleasant, protected and praiseworthy by their patriotic populace. Take a cue from that and give yourself fully to the advancement of your country which begins with having a renewed mind and attitudinal change towards national affairs.
In nation building, mental/attitudinal transformation is very vital because it determines the kind of citizen/leader you becomes and those you allowed to become leaders. The people you supported, nominated, sponsored, campaigned for, voted for and enthroned as leaders is a revelation of the kind of person you are and an exposition of your level of patriotism. Mind you, corrupt, biased, clueless and incompetent citizens ensure their fellow corrupt, biased, clueless and incompetent citizens become their leaders.
Whenever your nation is preparing for the next election, ask yourself the following questions and be sincere to yourself.
1. Who are your preferred candidates at all levels?
2. What do you know about each of them?
3. Why will you vote for them? Are you voting for them because of your love for your country or merely for the love of your candidates (or their political parties, religions, regions, statuses) or because you don't want to waste your vote?
While I leave you to search your heart on those questions, I leave you with this simple but loaded admonishion.
Place your love for your country above your love for your preferred candidates and/or the connection/relationship you shared together. If the only or major reason you are voting for any contestant is just because you love him/her or his/her politcal party or religion or race/tribe/ethnicity or gender or status; you are a major enemy of your fatherland.
Likewise, do not be caught up in the web of voting for anyone in order not to waste your vote. Virtues like capacity, capability, creativity, commitment, competence and correctness are different from connections, popularity and general acceptance.
Leadership requires only capable hands. Refusal to vote for a capable and right candidate because he/she is likely to lose (due to the fact that majority of the citizens won't vote for the right candidate) and decision to vote for a wrong candidate because of his/her likelihood to win considering his/her large followers/lovers is the greatest wickedness against any nation by every citizen in question. Why will you have, see and know the very right person for the job yet, opt for the wrong person to get the job? You cannot handover your country to wrong people and expect everything to be alright. Think deeply about it.
For the sake of our children and their children's children till the earth is no more, let us always vote rightly.
©️01/02/2023
Stephen Olamilekan Jimoh
Advance Everyday
...living life at best
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