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National Unity And Stability: Public Affairs Analyst, Oladipo Oluwole, Cautions Chief Bode George, Senator Shehu Sani

<h4>National Unity And Stability<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that in a word of caution&comma; Public affairs analyst and former Director&comma; Information and Education&comma; Ogun State&comma; Mr&period; Oladipo Oluwole has called out Chief Bode George and Senator Shehu Sani on the basis of fueling instability through unguided public utterance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a piece made available to OpenLife Sunday afternoon&comma; Mr&period; Oluwole drew anecdotes from doctrinal and administrative orientation wherein divisive and ethno-religious sentiments were among the reasons for past military interregnum in the country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He however cautioned that such should be statesmanly guided to avoid a repeat of inglorious past&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;His thoughts are reproduced below<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Human ability to objectively learn from the past mistakes&comma; often leads to appreciative breakthroughs in future endeavors&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>But&comma; politicians could&comma; sometimes&comma; sacrifice such fruitful&comma; and red flag&comma; learning experiences&comma; for their own personal political vendettas and interests&comma; which have always been the bane of our collective yearnings including interests&comma; till date&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>However&comma; this is to the detriment of the entire masses&comma; and country’s progress&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Military interregnum&comma; tends to bring about lopsided governance&comma; with the leadership domination of one ethnic group over the others&comma; because of the military command structures&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>This is unlike civilian rule with its democratic institutions&comma; like the political parties and individual party internal mechanisms with structures for necessary political leadership recruitment exercise&comma; at all levels of governance&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Hence&comma; since&comma; bad leadership and incompetent governance have always been the reference-point of excuses for military interregnum&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Therefore&comma; all efforts should be made not to truncate our fourth Republic and 25 years of uninterrupted democratic process which began in 1999&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>The truncations can be avoided by not allowing some politicians&comma; yet again&comma; to lead us to committing the same mistakes of using negative narratives&comma; such as ethno-religious sentiments&comma; emotions&comma; prejudices&comma; wrong perceptions&comma; personal interests&comma; political vendettas&comma; propaganda and lies etc&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>This is essentially so&comma; at this perilous time of a nation on the edge of a precipice&comma; in view of 2027 where citizens are expected to make choice in national political leadership in order to avoid further damning consequences&excl;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>It is&comma; therefore&comma; a costly mistake&comma; very disheartening and a great disservice to our growing democracy for the respected duo of Senator Shehu Sani and Chief Olabode George to have restarted tutoring&comma; in the media&comma; the failed and retrogressive ethnic divisive narratives as gimmicks and public distraction towards the 2027 general elections&comma; for whatever reasons&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Incidentally&comma; both are PDP staunch members&comma; or former products of the opposition party&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em><strong>Their attitudes are most dangerous &comma; judging by the nation&&num;8217&semi;s present untoward experiences&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>In the affairs of men&comma; no ordinary mortal can play <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">God<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em><strong>Chief Bode George had once vowed to leave the country&comma; if Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu won the 2023 presidential election&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>But today&comma; Tinubu is the President and our highly revered <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;">Baba George<&sol;a> is yet to learn and realize the Creator&&num;8217&semi;s awesome power to use anybody for a purpose&comma; especially&comma; in a rescue mission in the life of an individual&comma; group&comma; or a troubled nation&comma; &lpar;all of which abound in many scriptures&period;&rpar;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Hence&comma; Baba Bode&&num;8217&semi;s latest proclamation&comma; or &&num;8216&semi;decree&&num;8217&semi; on account of age with a fiat that His Excellency&comma; Atiku Abubakar&comma; would not become the president of this country&comma; come 2027&comma; and that Atiku should&comma; therefore&comma; wait for 2031 is worrisome&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Disqualifying the Turaki Adamawa ahead the election is more worrisome<&sol;strong><&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em><strong>But&comma; then&comma; <&sol;strong>&&num;8220&semi;Tani mola&&num;8221&semi;&&num;8230&semi;&&num;8221&semi;Tani to Olorun&&num;8221&semi;-<strong> who knows tomorrow&&num;8230&semi;who is equal to God&&num;8230&semi;are the two Yoruba wise sayings &excl;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Human beings’ occasional failures and gnashing of teeth&comma; will always be recurring decimals&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>This is because of human beings’ continuous use of minds&comma; emotions&comma; sentiments&comma; vendettas&comma; wrong perceptions&comma; idiosyncrasies&comma; and a great deal of misinformation&comma; to decide either personal issues or socio-political judgments&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>These unguided decisions come dire consequences on us&comma; necessitating a call on God as an alibi&comma; thereafter&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Any individual&comma; group&comma; society&comma; or nation&comma; that always fails to learn from the avoidable past mistakes&comma; &lpar;having exhausted the Creator&&num;8217&semi;s Special Grace&rpar;&comma; will eventually programme itself for doom&comma; &lpar;which is not God&&num;8217&semi;s deed&period;&rpar;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>May we not be doomed&comma; or consumed&comma; by ignorance&comma; self inflicted pains&comma; and sorrow&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>But as a country or people&comma; we can&&num;8217&semi;t continue to do the same thing in the same way&comma; for whatever reasons&comma; and still expect different results&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Oladipo Oluwole&comma; Public affairs analyst and former Director of Information and Education&comma; Ogun State can be reached via oladipooluwole21&commat;gmail&period;com&period; 08033598528<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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