By Ikenna ONUOHA (08038129192)
In our today's society, politics is bastardized and balkanized with jobless individuals who think that the only way to survive is by singing praises and licking ass.
These bulk of "August" politicians are recurring decimal, they are known with one repulsive act or the other. They can do anything possible to convince and confuse their target politicians to believe their rickety loyalty, when they have different missions to execute.
They cluster around in search of relevance, and when it is not forth coming, they resort to gossip, name dropping, blackmail and propaganda to whittle down opposition with a view to having their ways.
These set of individual can go a whole hug to achieve their aims at the detriment of innocent and dedicated followers. The character of the above persons has presented politics as a dirty game where those playing it are viewed as such.
This is why pastors, priests and to whom it may concern abstain themselves from the widely rated game due to its presumed dirtiness.
Howbeit, a closer look at some persons who see political game as everything in their lives, without which the world is foreclosed engage themselves in all manner of mundane means to scale through.
These individuals, most times could be professionals, yet by their actions, standard and the way they play the game, one will easily see the level of joblessness in them.
The likes of these desperate political hunters are best described as "food is ready politicians". They set up political structures and pronounce themselves leaders of such structures during election year as a strategy or ploy to lure their targets into believing them.
Most of them surface immediately after the electoral umpire, INEC declares their target persons winner of such elections. They are simply known as "reapers" and not "sowers"
Majority of these characters cannot win election and has never won any election in their life time even their community 'PG' position, yet they parade themselves as leaders, stakeholders or political champions.
Jumping from one party to another, one leader to another and spreads one gossip to another has become the daily duties and the stock in trade of these political beggars. By their actions, they are known. They should not be taken serious in the political game of the state.
These caliber of attention seeking political jobbers are so arrogant, cruel and vindictive in nature. What they do not believe in can only happen "over their dead bodies". This is always their regular oath.
A situation where an irrelevant specie who has neither won community elections, Councillorship, Chairmanship, House of Assembly or anything whatsoever in their lives move around claiming what they are not, apparently, to boost their political profile and as well remain afloat is quite ridiculous.
Most of them, made of professionals should have concentrated on their chosen careers for the good of the society rather than gallivanting and veering off the rout of sanity and morality in pursuit of materialism and undue relevance.
What baffles me and the public as well is once these self acclaimed leaders are entrusted with money or any other valuables on behalf of the people they claim to be representing, the truth of the matter is always at the reverse.
Sometimes, the self imposed leaders pay solidarity visit to their target politicians with crowed made up of market women, youths and students to finalize their heinous act and as well woo the heart of their targets at broad day light.
Painfully, the so called leaders go alone at the middle of the night when their hired crowed are asleep to collect loot, bounty or ransom on behalf of those they wouldn't contact again in life.
This is not only the height of stupidity, wickedness and fraudulent, but an act that should be checkmated. Often times, sincere politicians complain that after working assiduously for the victory of their preferred candidate, they end up at the dumping pit.
It is not true most times that after working for a candidate in an election, you end up abandoned by the person you worked for. It is the self acclaimed "food is ready politician" who presented a crowed you were part of used and dumped you after receiving millions or billions in your name without the information getting to your know.
One thing is certain that the magnitude of selfishness inherent in them, ordinarily described as "food is ready politicians" will not allow them to position you for empowerment considering the fact that they would still use you for their fraudulent trade in the next election year.
To be candid, the likes of the "food is ready politicians" are notorious in every government in power. They have no vision or mission for the state, but always interested in what they benefit. They are indeed diagnosed sycophants awaiting quarantine to avoid infecting others.
The Bible says that my people perish for lack of knowledge. Remember, those who perish for lack of knowledge are people who allow themselves to be used by these desperate "food is ready politicians" to achieve their selfish interests.
This is not only wrong, condemnable and nonsensical but a height of desperation that should be criticized by well meaning individuals.
If this is jointly rebuked and kicked against, these selfish "food is ready politicians" will find it hard to romance one leader to another or one political party to the other.
In the part two of this article, names of individuals whose actions and inactions connote with the principles of this dastardly act of "food is ready politics" will be mentioned.
................Ikenna ONUOHA is a Media and Public Relations Consultant. He is the State Publicity Secretary, Imo Concerned Citizens (ICC).
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