POLITRICKS: OTTO von BISMARCK INTO WINSTON S. CHURCHILL AND DEMOCRATIC DICTATORSHIP?

Otto von Bismarck was a great German Duke and Politician who dedicated his life to the greatness cum unification of all German territories with the exception of Austria, he was a master tactician in the act of diplomacy and this paid off with Germany maintaining its leadership position in Europe up till the present. He was a man of realpolitic and a powerful ''democratic dictator'' who demanded from the elite and the masses of the people full compliance in other to achieve his grand design for Germany, that was why he showed more trust in intellectualised loyal bureaucracy than the politicians who were very corrupt.

 

We can safely say that Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was of the same pedigree with Otto von Bismarck being a British aristrocrat, Politician and a great diplomat he played an important role as Prime Minister of Britain during the Second World War. He was also a man of realpolitic and a powerful ''democratic dictator'' under a monarchy.

I will like to add Lee Kuan Yew to the gathering here because he also in my view belongs to the circle of great leaders who changed the direction or fortune of their nations by staying focus on the grand design using all means neccessary within the ambit of democratic dictatorship in achieving result. Here was a leader who catapulted his country from the third world to first world in a single generation; you don't achieve that under scenarios of underdevelopment and grand corruption by being a dandy or slave to democratic niceties rather you make use of the laws, rules and regulations to get all encumberances out of the way.

No country develops merely on sloganeering about democracy and the rule of law alone especially where the political climate is thunderously corrupt, criminality is in the genes of its politicians not leaving out conspiracy and judicial brigandage as odoriferous Sosorobia enveloping and hemorrhaging our stratosphere leading to a state of anomie.

The situations described above which in my opinion succinctly illustrate our prevaling condition as a nation reflect obviously that what we urgently need is a leadership in the mode of statemen mentioned above an enlightened ''democratic dictator'', someone who is willing and capable of taking difficult decisions and run with them, a Juggernaut that will destroy most barriers right, left and center.

We cannot transition from an ''Agbero'' society if we insist on enhancement of our primordial bestial nature with arguments preoccupied or embedded with words like witchhunting, marginalization and persecution if/when our clans men and women were/are subjected to the rigours of the law for whatever infractions they might have committed e.g Senate Rules Forgery.

The Senate Rules Forgery scandal presented us with contradictions in the realm of political morality and antagonism within/between the three tiers of governmental triangle culminating in the immoral, unjust and criminal clamour to treat the issue as an internal affairs of the Senate thereby jettisoning the aspiration of the electorates clamouring for justice to be done in this case.

We are dealing with criminal act allegedly perpetrated by senior officials of the 8thSenate and some writers were/are positioning the issue as Montesquieu comparative analysis. I say to those writers shame on you for your iniquity and abuse of the principle of seperation of powers .

There is nothing dictatorial about given people the opportunity to defend themselves in a court of law when an allegation of forgery is levelled against them, fair hearing in my opinion is key to the rule of law. Now they will have their day in court.

Those calling the president a ''democratic dictator'' with a negative meaning to the phrase are doing acrobatic misrepresentation within the purview of meaning because the word democratic prefix to the dictatorship in my view establishes the fact that majority of Nigerians have elected the president to do what he is now doing, if that means dictatorship of the majority in the process of bringing sanity to our polity so be it. That is what democracy is all about reverseley.

OTUNBA ADE ILEMOBADE is a philosopher

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