From AP: “Labour leader Keir Starmer has officially become prime minister of the United Kingdom. Starmer received the blessing of King Charles III to form a government in a ceremony known as the “kissing of hands.” Starmer is now headed from Buckingham Palace to take up residence in No. 10 Downing Street, where he is expected to speak. He replaces Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who offered his resignation to Charles after his party that ruled for 14 years was swept from power in a Labour landslide”.
This is how democracy works. An opposition party destroyed a ruling party in the voting booths. The leader of the ruling party made way. The elections were free and fair. This is what Nigeria has not picked about democracy. And until we do, the best of Nigeria will not get closer to political leadership.
To Mr. Keir Starmer, nothing will change. As I wrote in May 2019, the UK will be changing leaders until they return back to the EU:
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“UK Prime Minister Theresa May resigns. I do not know why it took so long. The fact is this: the world that United Kingdom wants will not happen in the very near future. So, they better be changing leaders because no one can take them to their designed equilibrium point. In the past, it used to be The Rise of Me Only; today, it is now The Rise of All.
“That means – if you expect the world as it was 100 years ago, you are living in an illusion. UK benefited from the world, ravaging empires from Asia to Africa; now, it wants to sleep under its pillows happily, out of the world. That will not happen. Gone David Cameron, gone Theresa May, bring the next person. It will not change UK until it realizes that the new world is The Rise of All and citizens must make adjustments for that reality.”
Count how many UK leaders have rotated since that post…. There is a parallel to Nigeria. Yes, we will mess up the country until we wake up one morning and decide that Nigerians are ready to fix Nigeria. Have you noticed that cholera is back….across Nigeria? Are we moving forward or backward?
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Anyone who pays close attention would know that changing leaders or parties won’t bring anything significant to the UK, there’s really nothing much anyone can do. The UK is not large, neither does it possess enormous resources, it had already punched above its weight. Colonization and exploration helped it a great deal, such is no longer tenable, the EU that offered it another growth vector – funny politicians convinced the people that the EU was taking too much from them. It is not going to get much better, the resources and capacity aren’t just there.
As for Nigeria, this is a strange land filled with strange people. The ones who claim to love Nigeria are only interested in defrauding her, the same creatures that would lay claim to being popular and with enormous political ‘structures’, yet so afraid to test their acclaimed popularity in a free and credible election. We know all the dishonest and weightless creatures, they are even afraid of their own shadows.
You need military, police and all manner of paramilitary establishments to conduct elections, because either the ballot boxes will be snatched away, or results sheets will be torn. Now we are afraid to use the very technology purchased with great resources. Yeye people.