FALLACY OF PROPHETIC GODFATHERISM.
A good leader takes unpopular policy decisions in the overall interest of a nation, irrespective of whose territory politically speaking, he or she violates and dam the consequencies, the relationship in terms of the success and impact effectiveness of his/her actions vis a vis the policy instruments adopted for the greater good of the greatest number of people should be the determinant of performance in my opinion.
In my view the past governor of LASG did well performance wise while in the saddle, and the evidence of that is glaring for anyone to perceive. The edifices of performance are gargantua though some might have a different opinion or misgiving that the administration was elitist in nature.
Recent development in the news about the so called cruxifiction of the past governor of LASG because of the unpopular decisions he had taken while in office, noticeably the revelation that he squandered 78million Naira on a website, coupled with other sundry misadventures had exposed the inherent contradiction and the fallacious nature of our thinking processes.
We blame others for our misfortunes, we seek causes exterior, we refused to accept responsibilities, we give all kinds of justifications, all in the name of searching for an external cause for our misadventures. In everyday conversations we are apt to blame external forces, or legislative approval in the case of governance, and if we can't find any willing or desireable scape goats we pounced on Godfatherism.
Buckpassing is our nature and causality is our dogma and mantra, such that it is a prominent element of our finding justification via a thought paradigm that seeks association between events, factors, or subevents @ subfactors in such a mannerism that we often negate the fact of an events occuring independent of a given externality, in this case the Godfatherism factor.
If A then B If B then A therefore A is the cause of B. In our traditional Yoruba setting we often say ''Aje ke lana, omo ku leni, tani ko mo wipe Aje to ke lana lo pa omo je''.
This is our traditional cosmological view of how event, (cause) creates another event (Effect) though there might not be any one on one corresponding relationships between those two events but we belief the given is always the case, our refusal to accept that certain difficult events, in this case the revelation of wastefulness, misjudgement on the part of the former governor of LASG by some section of the public is instructive here. Please note they are entitled to their views.
Effects can originate as a result of inherent conditions in the object/subject, sometimes as an individual we generate the cause which produces the effect that is observable, rather than falsely predicating our predicament on any externality as most writers on this case had done, blaming political misunderstanding and Godfatherism.
The above is a typical rationalism in our clime, because we often deny that we ourselves are sometimes the first cause, no person is negating the fact that there might be misunderstanding prelude to the various revelations, but that is neither neccessary or sufficient enough to make a claim for Godfatherism.
The former governor adopted an open governance approach which is commendable, the result of that democratization of information on LASG website is that citizen would have access to vital documentation of government decisions, and they are at liberty to do a critical analysis of such information available in the public domain for the greater good of the citizenry.
If they per chance stumble on any questionable policy decision making, it is incumbent on them to expose such immediately and alert relevant authority to take neccessary actions to prevent it next time. @BudgetIT has done well in this case we need to give them national honour.
In conclusion @Fashola predicament in my view has nothing to do with political misunderstanding with a perceived Godfather rather it is a case of citizen vigilance and anti corruption campaign that are moving like tsunami across the nation, we need to chase all those crazy baldheads out of the town-Bob Marley.
OTUNBA ADE ILEMOBADE is a philosopher
Twitter: @pearl2prince
In my view the past governor of LASG did well performance wise while in the saddle, and the evidence of that is glaring for anyone to perceive. The edifices of performance are gargantua though some might have a different opinion or misgiving that the administration was elitist in nature.
Recent development in the news about the so called cruxifiction of the past governor of LASG because of the unpopular decisions he had taken while in office, noticeably the revelation that he squandered 78million Naira on a website, coupled with other sundry misadventures had exposed the inherent contradiction and the fallacious nature of our thinking processes.
We blame others for our misfortunes, we seek causes exterior, we refused to accept responsibilities, we give all kinds of justifications, all in the name of searching for an external cause for our misadventures. In everyday conversations we are apt to blame external forces, or legislative approval in the case of governance, and if we can't find any willing or desireable scape goats we pounced on Godfatherism.
Buckpassing is our nature and causality is our dogma and mantra, such that it is a prominent element of our finding justification via a thought paradigm that seeks association between events, factors, or subevents @ subfactors in such a mannerism that we often negate the fact of an events occuring independent of a given externality, in this case the Godfatherism factor.
If A then B If B then A therefore A is the cause of B. In our traditional Yoruba setting we often say ''Aje ke lana, omo ku leni, tani ko mo wipe Aje to ke lana lo pa omo je''.
This is our traditional cosmological view of how event, (cause) creates another event (Effect) though there might not be any one on one corresponding relationships between those two events but we belief the given is always the case, our refusal to accept that certain difficult events, in this case the revelation of wastefulness, misjudgement on the part of the former governor of LASG by some section of the public is instructive here. Please note they are entitled to their views.
Effects can originate as a result of inherent conditions in the object/subject, sometimes as an individual we generate the cause which produces the effect that is observable, rather than falsely predicating our predicament on any externality as most writers on this case had done, blaming political misunderstanding and Godfatherism.
The above is a typical rationalism in our clime, because we often deny that we ourselves are sometimes the first cause, no person is negating the fact that there might be misunderstanding prelude to the various revelations, but that is neither neccessary or sufficient enough to make a claim for Godfatherism.
The former governor adopted an open governance approach which is commendable, the result of that democratization of information on LASG website is that citizen would have access to vital documentation of government decisions, and they are at liberty to do a critical analysis of such information available in the public domain for the greater good of the citizenry.
If they per chance stumble on any questionable policy decision making, it is incumbent on them to expose such immediately and alert relevant authority to take neccessary actions to prevent it next time. @BudgetIT has done well in this case we need to give them national honour.
In conclusion @Fashola predicament in my view has nothing to do with political misunderstanding with a perceived Godfather rather it is a case of citizen vigilance and anti corruption campaign that are moving like tsunami across the nation, we need to chase all those crazy baldheads out of the town-Bob Marley.
OTUNBA ADE ILEMOBADE is a philosopher
Twitter: @pearl2prince
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