Members of the National Peace Committee, General AbdulSalami Abubakar and Rev. Dr. Matthew Kukah have expressed serious concern over the violation of the peace accord signed by the leadership of the 18 political parties and their presidential flag bearers.
The duo expressed concern that the peace accord was under threat, noting that current political actors appeared not to have learnt any lesson from the past.
The National Peace Committee members particularly expressed reservations over what they referred to as intemperate language, intimidation and outright violence in the campaign fields. They say the aggressive and abusive language only diminishes the integrity of the individuals, their candidates and their parties.
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Political analyst, Gbola Oba reacting to this development on TVCBreakfast said Nigerians live in a society where art of ritualism has been perfected.
“We do things because those things must be done and done in a manner to just show it has been done.”
According to him, one of the most robust business opportunities in our society now is to hold political office. The element of desperation naturally comes into this, on the side of the payers.
“And on the side of the supporters, you have people who are largely driven by poverty, people who are functionally elated and largely lack self esteem.
“This situation is not peculair to Nigeria alone, even in the best of societies, we have seen what liberal democracy has point to across the world.
“The idea, the concept or the motive of the peace accord, from what we see, is meant to ensure that everybody tries to be tolerant with the other person.
“Ordinarily, we need the moral pulpit in all human endeavours, not only in politics, in basic economics, in the area of morality. You need the moral appropriate to serve as the machinery through which moral situation could be articulated to make the man a human being do right.”
Mr Oba stated that just as much as Nigeria needs that, people in in official positions of state, must find a way of bringing about the dignification of the Nigerian persona.
“We don’t have a society when an average human being thinks less of himself, of herself, he or she will be predisposed to doing something.
Speaking about the dignification of the Nigerian persona, how crucial it is and the signing of the peace accord, Mr Oba said it is not something that can be done by public officers alone.
“To do it, an average Nigerian middleclass person must know that the wealth that grows sustainably is the wealth that edifies humanity.
“Until we make a formal and informal educational system to know that whatever you can do to alleviate the creative capacity of a human being, you don’t have to believe in God to be successful because if you use the parameters of the religions that we practice in Nigeria, people in China should be poor.
“The truth is that whichever way we look at it, even within the context of the selfish objectives we want to achieve, we must find strategies that will elevate and dignify the human beings around us and in our ecosystem. Until we do that, this accord, safety, security cannot be achieved,” Oba stated.
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