How To Defeat Money Politics

Many people do not yet understand what they bandy about in "Money politics" They think only in terms of receiving money to vote for someone. But it goes far wider than that. Some say you should take their money and vote someone else. Some say after all it is our money. But I say to you today that he who receives a stolen money is also a thief. It's easy to understand that isn't it?

But it goes far wider than that in the spiritual human sense. He who is offered such money is already partly guilty because homogeneity is already at play here. You need to yearn for such money's to open your door to receiving them. In order words you need to think of the possibility to be placed in a position to receive them. What this kind of money does to you is to take over your conscience which you need to make a proper choice.

So you have no longer any conscience to make a choice to vote. It automatically eliminates your choice in the matter because on thinking of it you become closely linked to the power centre of the things you loathe and it sucks you forcibly into its vortex that you cannot meander out. As soon as you receive the money your environment changes and you begin the struggle for explanations to give those connected to you those you lead. You begin to rationalise your state and you bring the argument: "look its our money, we shall vote against them anyway but you no longer have the moral strength to stick for long along this line because there is now no more difference between you and those who stole the money in the first place. So you have handed them victory without knowing it because you now rationalise that it is not too bad to steal what should ideally belong to you.

Now the major damage to the group or the youths is that their movement is compromised down to the centre and weakened. The above is what they want to achieve in neutralizing the new upsurge of youth consciousness in Nigeria as they did to previous attempts. Open to them are various unwholesome approaches.

There are three strategies.

The most potent is Association. To get the youths to compromise their stand through peer group pressure, family, village associations, WhatsApp groups, Facebook friends, town unions and all the places where financial contribution is required. Now the idea is to use these pressures to vacate the argument that the youths do not need money to thrive since the only source open to them in an impoverishing economy which is now during elections being narrowed down to only stolen public funds in the hands of politicians. This is the sense in Nigeria's poverty and primitive accumulation of wealth. To have money to buy up the conscience of majority youths at elections.

If this way fails, then they want to Introduce violence. The idea is to violate the democratic principle of one man one vote. To damage the openness of political choice by introducing fear thereby creating the avenue for the use of military to provide the security they have been unable to provide you all these while. In deed to rig under a situation that requires high funding to get people to gather and vote. Only the thugs are then given the leeway to double our triple vote.

The security option is to further remove focus on people and focus it on funds to give you 'security'. So at every angle they can refocus the units of democracy from the people and make it either money or guns.

The third option they have in violating the wishes of the people is not to allow voting to go on at all. They could activate the option of Boko Haram taking over the seat of power and ruling by decrees. The excuse of course is that insecurity has risen from separatists and needed to be stopped. All are the outflows of a military supervised constitution of 1999.

All these are contained in the same meaning of Money politics.

Of course there is the spiritual side as well as the ritual in them which makes the money you get very explosive in depriving you of a victory you have in your hand at the moment. The money or desire for it or even the mere thought links you not to the thief but also to the blood of those who have heen killed in rituals for this purpose. So you must separate yourself from them or their foot soldiers. Now they are everywhere in social media paid handsomely to subvert their own consciences and those of millions. They are very easy to identify. They are all around you. Just unfollow them now or you are an accomplice to what they unleash. You see them using all sorts of adverts on groups and everywhere. You know them by their threats, vile language, impatience to reason because they have lost their own. They want to offer you loans...don't go there at all they want to gather your data only. Hey call it empowerment and you jump at it not knowing that those who give you palliative are the cause of your lack. So you get hooked up and you become also responsible for those who are kidnapped somewhere or those who are murdered in ritual killings everywhere. Just being friends with them on Facebook is already enough linkage to make you as guilty as them.

Just try as much as you can to isolate them, their luciferian principle and their horde of unconscious collaborators and you have gone a long way to retain your victory this time around.

*Mr Nwokedi Nworisara, is a former Presidential Aspirant of the defuncted SDP, 1992