GOOD NEWS PATHS TO PROSERITY ORILEEDE YORUBA Prof. Banji Akintoye. We Shall Clean Up Our Politics

GOOD NEWS
PATHS TO PROSERITY IN OUR
ORILEEDE YORUBA
by
Prof. Banji Akintoye.
We Shall Clean Up Our Politics
We Shall Sharply Clean Up Our Politics
From ancient times, we Yoruba evolved democratic political systems. In other monarchical cultures in the world, the king is automatically succeeded by his own child, and the subjects have no voice in the choice. From the beginning of our history, we Yoruba people rejected such automatic succession. In every one of our kingdoms from the very beginning, we chose the right to select the king from among members of the royal family. We also empowered the members of each lineage to select our chiefs. We enjoyed being respected by our kings and chiefs, and we had freedom of speech in the affairs of our society.
In the 1950s, with Chief Obafemi Awolowo as our first Premier and first National leader in modern times, we Yoruba people in our then Western Region of Nigeria evolved the most democratic political society in Africa, the government most responsive and most dedicated to the needs, the desires and the expectations of the people, the leadership conscientiously respectful of our voices and our votes, the government and leadership most capable of competing with the best developed countries of the world. Under Chief Awolowo’s successor, the high quality of leadership, politics and governance continued for some time - in short, we had established our modern political tradition based on our ancient political culture.
But in 1962, because most of the rest of Nigeria were hostile about our foremost position in progress and development in Nigeria, they combined to use the power of the Federal Government to push our Western Region down - by suspending our Region’s constitution and elected government, imposing a hand-picked Sole Administrator on our Region, and introducing the culture of election rigging to our Region. The orderliness and progress of our Region disappeared immediately. Since then, we Yoruba have been retrogressing with the rest of Nigeria. Ultimately, the retrogression has translated to our walking in tandem with Nigeria in the low standards that are typical of Nigeria - in Nigeria’s undemocratic (even anti-democratic) politics, systematically fraudulent elections, self-centered and horribly corrupt leadership, insensitivity of government to the conditions, fears and suffering of the people, lack of national direction, ever-deepening poverty and hopelessness, general moral decline close to moral depravity.
But the days of our living in these horrible political and moral conditions are about to come to an end. In our own country separate from Nigeria, in our own Orileede Yoruba, we shall soon be living again as a truly democratic people, with our politicians respecting our voices and our votes, with our governments respectfully responding to our needs and desires, with public corruption a thing of the past.
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