Power Holders Still Ignorant That Power Belongs To People
September 11 2017 By Abiodun Giwa
Dr. Makhosi Khoza (Courtesy:Pinterest)
It is not hidden that some political power holders can be oppressive. It is also not hidden that some political power holders would hold on to power at all cost, despite lack of performance.
Political power holders lack the understanding of the transiency of power and that no one brought power from heaven and when we leave, we take no power along.
Events in many countries around the world, where leaders do whatever they like with power, oblivious or ignorant that power belongs to the people and that as elected they only hold power in trust for the people.
A good example is South Africa, where the opposition championed a vote of no confidence against President Jacob Zuma, but lost because of the ANC majority in the parliament. But where ANC members who vote in support of the vote of no confidence against Zuma are being haunted by powers in the ANC.
According to news reports by the News24, the ANC has begun a disciplinary session against members, who supported the vote of no confidence against Zuma. Notably among the ANC members currently fighting for survival is Dr. Makhosi Khoza, who said at the onset that the evil forces in the party will haunt them for their freedom of choice.
Khoza has been charged with bringing the party into disrepute by the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal, according to News24 report. Khoza is reported to have said that she that the time and venue for her disciplinary hearings had made her suspicious because no meeting of this type was held on a Sunday.
Apparently, the ANC has turned the support for vote of no confidence against Zuma into a crime against members, who exercised their conscience and not allow the party to dictate to them, what to do with their votes. Khoza is till fighting not to attend the disciplinary, citing the lack pf safety for her life. While the ANC's secretary general, Gwede Mantashe, described ANC MP Makhosi Khoza's fears that her disciplinary hearing was an opportunity for an ambush as playing to the gallery.
As the world watches political development around the world with South Africa coming as a litmus test, and the development in Nigeria comes into focus. Women Affairs Minister Aisha Jummai Alhassan is a member of the ruling party and currently a cabinet member in President Muhammad Buhari's government. Sometimes during the weekend, she decidedly endorsed another member of the party, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, against the sitting president, and obviously that means she is against the reelection of the sitting president.
Since Alhassan's statement, words that are reminiscent of attacks on her right of freedom of expression have been coming against her from supposed supporters of the sitting president. Alhassan did not not say that the sitting president should not go for reelection. All she had said was that she would be voting for a different candidate within the party, and her words taken out of context by Muhammad's supporters as representing a crime.
Ibikunle Amosun, one of the sitting governors in the South West of the country said he would have wished that Al Hassan resigns from the cabinet before making her pronouncement against the president's reelection bid. Whereas many Nigerians are convinced that age is working against Muhammad, and that in view of his health issues, Muhammad should not seek reelection.
But not for beneficiaries of political portridge and hangers on in the corridors of power, who thinks that power would always belong to them, and that once they have been voted into office, they have the right to determine the life and death of the ordinary people and the opposition members.
Political power holders lack the understanding of the transiency of power and that no one brought power from heaven and when we leave, we take no power along.
Events in many countries around the world, where leaders do whatever they like with power, oblivious or ignorant that power belongs to the people and that as elected they only hold power in trust for the people.
A good example is South Africa, where the opposition championed a vote of no confidence against President Jacob Zuma, but lost because of the ANC majority in the parliament. But where ANC members who vote in support of the vote of no confidence against Zuma are being haunted by powers in the ANC.
According to news reports by the News24, the ANC has begun a disciplinary session against members, who supported the vote of no confidence against Zuma. Notably among the ANC members currently fighting for survival is Dr. Makhosi Khoza, who said at the onset that the evil forces in the party will haunt them for their freedom of choice.
Khoza has been charged with bringing the party into disrepute by the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal, according to News24 report. Khoza is reported to have said that she that the time and venue for her disciplinary hearings had made her suspicious because no meeting of this type was held on a Sunday.
Apparently, the ANC has turned the support for vote of no confidence against Zuma into a crime against members, who exercised their conscience and not allow the party to dictate to them, what to do with their votes. Khoza is till fighting not to attend the disciplinary, citing the lack pf safety for her life. While the ANC's secretary general, Gwede Mantashe, described ANC MP Makhosi Khoza's fears that her disciplinary hearing was an opportunity for an ambush as playing to the gallery.
As the world watches political development around the world with South Africa coming as a litmus test, and the development in Nigeria comes into focus. Women Affairs Minister Aisha Jummai Alhassan is a member of the ruling party and currently a cabinet member in President Muhammad Buhari's government. Sometimes during the weekend, she decidedly endorsed another member of the party, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, against the sitting president, and obviously that means she is against the reelection of the sitting president.
Since Alhassan's statement, words that are reminiscent of attacks on her right of freedom of expression have been coming against her from supposed supporters of the sitting president. Alhassan did not not say that the sitting president should not go for reelection. All she had said was that she would be voting for a different candidate within the party, and her words taken out of context by Muhammad's supporters as representing a crime.
Ibikunle Amosun, one of the sitting governors in the South West of the country said he would have wished that Al Hassan resigns from the cabinet before making her pronouncement against the president's reelection bid. Whereas many Nigerians are convinced that age is working against Muhammad, and that in view of his health issues, Muhammad should not seek reelection.
But not for beneficiaries of political portridge and hangers on in the corridors of power, who thinks that power would always belong to them, and that once they have been voted into office, they have the right to determine the life and death of the ordinary people and the opposition members.
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