Reconstructing The Base Review & Outlook The Incumbency Factor

The absence of empathy with everyday concerns has alienated the people of the state from the APC. Trust has been broken and must be rebuilt. It will only be rebuilt through a strategic framework if pu ng everyday concerns of the people first. Everyday concerns must be addressed and the solu ons to it okayed on top of the agenda.

ences in tribe and tongue, religion as a divisive issue and poverty rates. There are also resemblances based on poli cal par es developing client, patronage rela onships. A no ceable difference is that incontrover bly India is doing so much be er. Nigeria has replaced it as the poverty capital of the world and the projec on is that India will become the largest economy in the world by output by 2050. The difference is huge!

How does this affect the incumbency issue? It will be of help to explore as to if there is any relevance. Unlike in Nigeria incumbency is an encumbrance in India. The voters are less pa ent with fumbling poli cians and except much more in terms of delivery. For example, the government of Prime Minister Mordi was the first government at the center to be reelected in thirty-two years. Much of the same is replicated at the lower rungs - in the regions and the local government levels. This must be beneficial. For a start, it keeps the poli cians on their toes and shows very clearly that performance counts. This is in contradis nc on to the distribu on of largesse for immediate succour in the electoral cycle as indulged by the Nigerian poli cal establishment. A more expectant electorate also dents corrup on as

The APC must starve of a route to irrelevance by cons tu ng a new manager. A party chairman who con nues to lead the party into successive electoral routs has to go. The party must be rebuilt

It will require developing new ideas and a leadership to implement it. The party must not lump in from electoral debacle to ex ncon. Osun state needs a progressive alterna ve to guide and to guard, the prac ce will have to be modulated in order to achieve more of benefits to the electors.

The so called advantage of the incumbent in Nigeria therefore actually acts as a brake on sustainable development. There appears now to be the early signs of a silver lining on the horizon. The electorate in Nigeria is now more discerning and increasingly inpa ent. This is a welcome development. We must begin to be like India, the empirical evidence indicates that impa ence with incumbents translates into be er dividends of democracy. There were near misses in places like Ogun State and surrogates were defeated in many places like Abia, neverthe-

•Overhaul of the APC imperative in the Statue of Osun OSUN DEFENDER

less the impa ence of the electorate is becoming manifest and it is a welcome development. The benefits are posi ve for the development process and will help to break the perennial problem of underachieving and the development of underdevelopment. It is the Way to go.

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The jury is out, there must be a revamp of the Independent Na onal Electoral Commission (INEC). It must begin with an evalua on of the method of selec on and recrui ng. The criteria are dodgy. It is now clear that being an academic does not necessarily translate into management capability. The performance of professors and the Vice-Chancellors on call in the present electoral cycle demonstrates this. It calls into ques on the managerial competence imputed into running the ter ary ins tu ons which are not just centers of teaching, learning and research but are large and complex organisa ons requiring scenario planning as well as project management skills and strategic impera ves. These skills were lacking in the opera ons of INEC. To plead in mi gaon, they are also lacking in the opera ons of the inept central bank of Nigeria.

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It is really me to ditch the academics in INEC and bring in project management. Prepara on for the next electoral cycle begins today.