2023: Zoning, old guards and mercantile politicians
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By: Ibrahim Muye Yahaya
The great American political writer, Theodore Sorensen, who crafted many of President John F. Kennedy’s greatest addresses; once remarked that politics was critically diminutive of leaders and that democracies needed leadership more than any other quality. It was true then. It is even more the case now. This is a troubling veracity. Now, truth is always said to imitate art. However, the truth is much more mesmerizing: reality actually subsumes art.
Good governance is in diminutive supply. It is no accident that we are simultaneously witnessing political kaput: corruption, incompetency, sycophancy, maladministration and nepotism which is producing a widening fissure linking what electorates are asking of their government and what the government can deliver. The mismatch between budding demand for good governance and its shrinking supply is one of the utmost challenges