SLPP and their gladiatorial political game

Many simple wits refer to politics as a game. True, it is a game but not like a football or volley ball game that requires only physical exercise and proper reflex. Because politics is all about the use of power over fellow men who have conscience and thinking facility, mere reference or description of it as a game is a misnomer, bordering on the absence of knowledge of it.

Politics is, in the first place, an art. As an art, it invariably involves talent and innate ability to wield the mantle of power over people, some of whom with better intellectual make-up.

In the second place, politics a sacred phenomenon endowed to men by the creator. Those who carry the mantle of power should therefore be revered as God’s anointed – for those who believe in the existence of God.

What one observes lately in the political dynamics of this nation is the non-fear of the Lord, which has manifested itself in various forms: dishonesty, corruption, non-patriotism and a whole welter of evil perpetrated by one against the other, all being children of the one supreme God, watching in disbelief from his celestial throne.

The gladiatorial type of political game played by “idle” supporters of the SLPP leaves much to be deserved and begs the question as to whether the SLPP that was once known for intellectual discipline and political tolerance is the same SLPP that is now behaving like an unwilling dame at dawn. Is it that extraneous forces are remotely controlling situations to ensure the disintegration of the SLPP before the advent-of 2018? Because politics is about persuasion to win numbers, chaos and brute force should not be rubber stamped as a modus operandi of a political party, especially one that has a track record for political tolerance and democracy. It is true that both Maada Bio and Yumkellah are political heavy weights in the SLPP but the two are intellectuals too and have a better way of merging their differences than resorting to the behavior of the rabble – (people whose emotions make them behave senselessly).

The SLPP top echelon both at home and abroad should now be thinking about mending fences, repairing the cracks in the wall and putting together a vibrant shadow cabinet referred to earlier in this column as the surest way to settle their differences. This is better than drawing daggers and jeopardizing the chances of the party come February, 2018.

TALKING POLITICS – With Joe Nyangu

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