Chief Bisi Akande, a founding
member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has told the Governor of Kaduna
State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai that godfatherism was essential for the growth of
democracy in Nigeria.
Akande was adding his voice to
the proxy war going on between the national leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola
Ahmed Tinubu and Governor el-Rufai.
Akande reminded the Governor that
mentorship is what everyone in any endeavour needs to grow and succeed in their
preferred career.
He said that some self-seeking
politicians have overlooked this and have chosen to attack the idea by
referring to it as godfatherism.
He said such politicians were
doing this in their bid to wield influence in a political party they don’t
believe in its ideology.
This was obviously a veiled
reference to el-Rufai’s comment on how to end the menace of godfatherism in
Lagos politics.
Governor el-Rufai, had about two
weeks ago insisted he has no apology over his comment that “godfather can be
defeated” in Lagos State.
Akande said, “You are free not to
join any political party. You are free to contest as an independent candidate.
It is fraudulent, however, for you to join and win elections on the platform of
a political party and subsequently form another group to override your
political parties’ injunctions.
“Your legacy, by so doing, will
belong to those of the selfish leadership. Like most learners serve
article-ship before qualifying as Accountants; and like most lawyers serve
tutelage before being professionally competent, so must a university lecturer
seek mentor-ships before rising to professorship.
“In the same manner, the lower
the hierarchy of a political party member, the more mentorships he required to
rise from mere canvasser, to ward organizer, to party officer and to election
candidature within his chosen political party.
“It is these political
mentor-ships that are being presently euphemistically negated as ‘godfatherism’
by the neo-money politicians struggling to use money to hijack influence from
political parties whose ideology they do not care to respect.
“And that was why the Sixth
National Assembly ignorantly promulgated the nonsensical theories of ‘internal
democracy’ into the Electoral Act of 2010 which now results in big-money
politics to the present day Nigeria,” the former Osun governor told Sun.
“It is not about defending Tinubu
or responding to el-Rufai’s statement about defeating godfatherism, I am
defending common sense.
“You just don’t wake up one day
and say you want to become a politician; you would need people who are more
experienced to mentor you.
“El-Rufai learnt from some
mentors, if you want to grow, you must learn”, the APC leader added.
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