The Periscope Global Literati
Some crowds generated by some candidates seeking mandate during campaigns could be fraudulent a self-deception, when money would have to be involved to rent the time of the pretended supporters who, for the most part, could be the no ambitious self-disenfranchised, lacking the PVC to vote.
To this category of candidates, the voters’ convictions and confidence are not about the crowd the campaign would, or has generated but the question of the extent of the mission accomplishments, the implementation of the manifesto and/or whether or not the campaign promises are fulfilled…
Some overwhelming crowds, could on the other hand, be genuinely generic, generated either owing to the misrule requiring a radical change, as exemplified by “Ó Tó Gẹ́,” translated to mean “enough is enough,” a slogan for the political revolution of the 2019 electioneering atmosphere in Kwara state, introduced by the 79-year-old Lazeez Ayinla Kolawole, a member of the All Progressives Congress that led to the humiliating defeat against the PDP’s Sen Bukola Saraki, the immediate past Senate President.
And the “O Jippa Tan,” translated to mean “He should just come down,” slogan introduced by the former governor Murtala Hammanyero Nyako of Adamawa state that resulted in pulling down the former governor Bindow to have brought the present governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri.
Or in support of a choiced tested and trusted candidate, exemplified by the Binani phenomenon, the generic crowds across Adamawa state, considered to have intimidated the opponent(s).
Analysing the 2023 electioneering atmosphere as it relates to the gubernatorial campaign in Adamawa, Yunusa Abubakkar, the literary critic would reveal to the Periscope Global that between the sitting governor, seeking for re-election, the PDP’s Rt. Hon. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri and the APC’s Sen. Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed, a.k.a Binani, lies on the consideration based of the past and future tenses.
The past tense question to answer, rather excellently, is for governor Fintiri, it is “what promises have you been able to accomplish during your tenure to have had a general rather than biased impact on the lives of the citizenry? Whether or not capital and human capacity developments remain in commensurability. Whether or not the leadership was based on the rule of law, equality before the law and fundamental human rights without undue uncontrolled unconscious bias based on ethnicity or religion favoured, among other concrete considerations and that which includes the degree of indebtedness by means of loans vis-à-vis the initiated positive investments and the promising investors attracted.
“The future tense question is for Binani to answer, coming as a fresh governorship candidate, having been fascinated with her adequate representational responsibility, the question is “what will be your accomplishments, how will you get to go by achieving them when eventually elected?”
Considering the literary critic’s expostulations, has Governor Fintiri, as Adamawa CAN chairman would give as a testimony, performed credibly better than the previous governments that Fintiri himself was quoted as saying, have reduced the state to the state of underdevelopment he inherited?
Can we be inclined to Richard Rorty’s “IRONISM” as a philosophy, to be submissive to the CAN chairman’s “final vocabulary?” Is his “final vocabulary” truthfully impressive, devoid of subjective bias than ours that we continuously keep having doubts about? Or can there be any better than our doubtful final vocabulary to have been more impressed with, projecting the performance of the sitting governor for the Ganye Chiefdom along with the state citizenry to be persuaded to endorse him for a second mandate, for instance?
The crowds generated following the Biniani’s Appeal Court victory judgement and during the APC Presidential and Governorship Flag Off Campaign at Muhammadu Buhari Square in Yola were genuinely overwhelming, it was equally a great expectation the crowds the amazon’s campaign at Ganye Chiefdom generated.
Should we be impressed with Marie Ann Jefferson’s final vocabulary that “without any sentiment, Binani has touched the lives of the citizenry in many ways as much as she has effectively accomplished her representational responsibility as a Senator. Her promises when eventually elected as governor shall equally be accomplished.
“With the Ganye Chiefdom’s generic endorsement, apparently indicative of disapproval of the no consideration, no project and/or development lies the hope of a collective mandate from other Chiefdoms and Emirates in Adamawa”.
It isn’t only Marie Ann, but Nigerian women in general, represented by the Hon Minister of Women Affairs, Dame Pauline Tallen, the former governor Murtala Hammanyero Nyako and above all, President Muhammadu Buhari who having referred to Binani as the Governor-In-Waiting, urged the Adamawa citizenry to join in changing the state narrative, redefine the polity with a view to getting the state out of the maze.
It appears that the state citizenry harkens to President Muhammadu Buhari’s call for having the first Nigerian female governor in Adamawa,not simply due to her gender but her capacity, capability, competency, confidence, courage and compassion, without being hypothetical about the faith she professed, while also honouring other people with their tribes in tune with the divine call that humans are created equal and are divided into nations, tribes and gender, for identity rather than supremacy and that piety defines the most honoured before the Creator. Suffices to say that diatribe against tribe defines the ignorant as the Prophet SAW would admonish.