Article written by Charly Boy. Read below and share your thoughts
Really been thinking about this zoning thing since this APC drama on it
and wondering why we have allowed this to eat so deep into our system
that at every quarter, it always raises its head. To think that the
Change agents everyone has been clamoring about are back to the same
issue of zoning formulas and reports have it that it is fast wreaking
havoc is a high. It makes me wonder why zone in the first place?
The 360 states in the house of assembly, is it not enough representation
for any quarter of the nation. Why do we need to complicate issues
further because one would have thought the primary concern when it comes
to appointment should be competence? We have tried this zoning thing
over and again but what better has it done us because I hear someone say
it helps to foster unity and participation.
I think the divides are more obvious now with this whole zoning thingy
than it was with our founding fathers. I'm probably going to rest this
argument by drawing this analogy;
Take a look at our team called Super Eagles! Has anybody ever asked that
positions in our football team be distributed across zones, or that the
position of the captain, or coach for that matter, be rotated between
North and South, etc? That I think is clearly because everyone is more
interested in the team winning. I ask myself why do we want this win so
badly? What is the price at stake? A piece of metal called trophy I
suppose.
How about the Struggle to alleviate poverty staring at our face? How
about the fight to educate millions of Almajiri? How about the fight to
eradicate polio and reduce maternal mortality to negligible numbers? How
about the fight to increase power generation seven fold by 2020? We
have so much more at stake in these fights that the Super Eagle will
ever have yet we let something as flippant as zoning take the Centre
stage over competence. So, how is it we can demand that the coach pick
out best 23 for the World Cup, and yet tolerate less in our Government? I
hope posterity does not judge us for our lack of objectivity and
sentiments instead.
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