EDITORIAL – Need for Credible Election in Nigeria

Nigeria covering an area of a little more than nine hundred and thirteen thousand square kilometers is a sovereign nation and is gradually approaching her 50^th year of her independence as a nation.

            Thickly populated with over one hundred and fifty people, Nigeria lies between latitudes 4 and 14 north of the Equator and longitudes 3 and 14 east of the Greenwich Meridian and is bounded on the West by the Republic of Benin, on the north by Niger Republic, on the east by the Republic of Cameroon and is washed on the south by the Atlantic Ocean.

            Being so richly blessed by Nature, she needs knowledgeable men and women to harness the abundant resources including humans and materials for the betterment of all her citizens and even beyond for the fulfillment of the purposes God created them.

            One of such ways, and indeed a stepping stone towards achieving this, is by ensuring a credible election and, sometimes, perhaps, appointing men and women into Executive legislative and Judicial Arms of Government including Boards and parastatals rather than seeing it as a reward.

            For these and more, the need for credible elections, come 2011 cannot be overemphasized, since of late men with little or no integrity seem to outnumber responsive and reponsible men in positions of authority thereby disabusing and wasting the abundant resources of nature prevalent in the country and causing many Nigerians to be faced with some ugly situations which could have been averted if the resources were properly harnessed.

            Against this background, therefore, Century Newsfront calls for strict adherence to the Country’s electoral processes, the constitution being paramount and the rule of law maintained that no matter who is who, so as to strengthen these institutions with a view to producing or presenting credible men and women to run the affairs of the nation.

            Gone are the days when people who considered themselves as timber and caliber, the political juggernauts etc. are called upon to manage the country’s economy but at the end with their winners take all syndrome, they batter and squander the economy at the detriment of Nigerians and the Country herself.

            It is high time Nigerians, we have to rise to the challenge of building the Nigeria of our dreams, so that the labour of our Heroes past shall never be in vain, because all these developed nations were not created so, but it was through hard work, sincerity of purpose among other good attributes that made those countries what they are today.

            Finally, considering the fact that Nigeria is blessed with credible men and women, such people should see to it that the development of the Country should be paramount especially when elected or appointed into any office including the interest of Nigerian themselves so as to maintain the temper which the eleven years of uninterrupted democracy has provided and in order not to remain everlasting developing country for the citizen to continue living in abject poverty in the midst of abundant resources for even the fish in the ocean cannot complain of lack of water to drink or food to eat courtesy of the Almighty creator who also made man to control all these things.

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