Grassroot is politics; Need to build a formidable grassroot support.

I got a few messages yesterday asking for my thoughts on this election debate and the outcome of this coming election.
Well, I said our situation as a nation is a sad one, pretty much unfortunate, to say the least...
The battle, obviously, is between Buhari and Atiku. They are the two major contenders in this election. As it is, I maintained that it is better to have this Buhari situation for the next four years that to have Atiku for eight years, because he definitely won't spend one term in office.
We can't even afford to go back to PDP, that would be worse. Forget all the make up they are doing for Atiku, PDP is still PDP.
I was thinking last night if it was possible for all the young candidate to still come together and form one person, but the truth is, this is too close to the election (we have less than a month) and there's not much that they can do.
But they have another four years to come together and a present a formidable opposition. That's if they truly have the nation's interest at heart though, because some of them appear selfish going by the PACT issue.
Some people think those of us who say Buhari should win, based on our current situation, don't love Nigeria. They believe we should "waste" our votes on Sowore and others.
Well, I can confidently say that none them love this country more than I do, that's a fact.
Politics is grassroot. If you must win any election, you must have a strong grassroot base.
Does Durotoye, Sowore, Moghalu or Ezekwesili have grassroots base or support?
No, they don't
Let's not put emotions into this, Presidential election is not a local government election.
Come to think of it, should any of these not well known candidates win, they will serious problem with governance because they won't have support in the Senate as well as the states.
Wetin kon remain? We will then realise that we are back to square one. They will be using Nigeria to play ludo game.
No, let's totally avoid that. The system we operate in, in today's Nigeria, does not favour such.
As big as Buhari is, with his party, look at what ordinary Saraki did to him concerning budget and capital projects; they were removing capital projects form from the budget and replacing them with stomach infrastructure project. SMH
Now, imagine a totally new president (with little or no Federal/Presidential experience) in the hands of those rogues (so to say) in the National assembly.
They will frustrate that administration.
The new parties an candidates have another four years to plan and prepare well.
For them to win, they need a strong grassroot base.
For them to have a successful administration after winning, they need to have their members in National Assembly and States, those that will defend their policies and ideology when need be.
Honestly, I was going to join a political party last year, but no. I didn't see the need to, from my observations and close monitoring.
I remember telling some Sowore and Durotoye supporters who spoke to me that I won't join them because I felt they weren't ready.
To me, they would be ready when they come together in a single platform.
I told them, that if they can come together, they should wake me up at 2am and say "let's go to Kano", if I'm available, I'll go with them to anywhere to support and contribute my quota to the nation.
But unfortunately, that didn't happen, it probably would have been a different case now if they were successful with the PACT.
Anyways, let's hope they see this as a starting point, let's hope they realise that they can do more together before 2023.
Imagine having Buhari, Atiku and another very strong candidate that can give the first two a big challenge, just imagine.
Imagine if there were just three major candidate to debate yesterday, even Atiku would dare not do what he did. We would have called their bluff, but look what we have.
Let's just hope that 2023 will be better.
Let's hope!
The end

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Afọlábí, Emmanuel Ọlálékan.