r is or ought to be driven by reason accompanied by rights and ethical duties as led and inspired by leadership. On the validity of this philosophy, we ought to remind ourselves as a people and bring social consciousness to some of our elites and leaders about the dangerous drifting of our society to the potential abyss of a failed state, from the perspective of values and ethics in some key social institutions of our society – politics, and governance.
Thus, the political culture of our society has been predisposed as a commercial venture to grab power not through dialogue about options for progress of society, social contract between led and leaders but through vote buying, brazen stealing of ballot boxes by hired thugs, intimidation and violence.
The political environment is further riddled by mistrust at all levels between groups, politics of divisiveness because of emptiness of debatable ideas, acute hate on social media, inability to manage social diversity but exploited for self-interest at the peril of entire society, inability for institutional organisation, incapacity for applied ethics and learning and lack of a shared meaning for the cohesion of society which ought to resonate with all in a common solidarity.
“Political culture is set of attitudes, beliefs and sentiments which give order to a political process and which provide the underlying assumptions and rules that govern behaviour in the political sphere” as basically defined by Lucian Pye. Logically, our political system’s grim features cannot give us attitudes, beliefs and sentiments that helps build a progressive and sustainable society.
The disillusionment in poor leadership and collapsed political culture thus manifest itself in ever declining public trust and political apathy since 1999 and recently by the poor level of participation in the 2019 general election which had only 28.6 million people voted-out of 82.
First, a Fabian element model to bringing reform could be a path of response of Nigerians to the enterprise politics and poor governance. The Fabian model subscribes to principles of gradualist and reformist effort in a democracy, rather than other non-democratic approaches.
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