In a democratic society, one thing known for sure is majority (number). In a democratic society, we crave to the brim for franchise. We are in a democratic society where disenfranchisement to qualified people – men, women, and even students is wrapped in an upright state of delusion. Disenfranchisement of qualified members is incompetent to this rule of numbers, democracy!
Today, 13th of July, 2021, has witnessed a lot of electoral eyesores: The Campus Voice, Mapoly Press Club, released a news story that says the Former Speaker of the Students’ Representative Council, Femi Owoeye (MVP), made a very spiteful utterance which bit some students into animosity. His statement through his conclusive speech birthed altercation.
Imagine: Why, on earth, should an iconic stakeholder in the school give a showy and a glaring backing to a Students’ Union Presidential aspirant? Is that a publicity or a strategic way of winning the audience’ hearts? Why should he mention the aspirant’s name, in the first place. We can now begin to be calling ourselves by celebrating we are leaders. Beams! I’m laughing!
Later, we start to say the nation’s leadership mantle should be delivered to the youth. Is this how we want to rule it and make it innovatively developed? Alas!
When I initially saw this news today, something dropped into my mind. And I began to see this move as a ploy.
*A ploy for what?*
A strategy that wants to place all these studentship historically organised academic policies of the campus to jeopardy and discombobulation . To some extent, however, they have been able to achieve this nebulous policy of choices incarceration. Yeah! Our choices have been jailed! However, we can’t be made "no-choice students" in Mapoly.
The reality dawn more on me that you can force a horse to the river bank but you can’t force a horse to drink from the bank. This can be seen from the angle of an aspirant for Students’ Union Welfare Director, Oluwagbemi Daniel ( Big Sam) who has honorably stepped down, for he allegedly said he could no longer cope with the policy through which he would be voted for. Obviously, he has seen no road in the ways some managerial stakeholders tend to see one. Hence, he has paved another humble road for himself by stepping down. A very thoughtful thought. Until things are in normalcies, policies are abnormal.
I mean, some months ago the plan was changed because of the intensity of COVID-19 then, do we still tend to run on the excuse of COVID-19’s impediments. Abba?
I see no normalcy in the policy of delegated individuals to stand in gap for the masses of the majority of students. It’s outrightly a porous idea.
My question: Are the delegates only the ones paying the SUG sundry when the time comes? I think, it’s better be them only.
On the same lane, I’m also seeing futility and unproductive outcomes from this porous policy of election fomented and set on.
Why going such process of disenfranchising virtually 90% of the campus students? Why always trying to create ways in an apparently no-way area? Why do you want to think we are all naive, gullible and therefore we’d be susceptible to this poignant policy of voting.
I just want to believe that we run this one with a view to following perfectly what the democratic constitution of a school says.
A renowned Afro musician, Fela Kuti had once said, *the ablution of a cat is a strategy to steal meat.* Hope our rights have not been stolen?
AKorede’s Postulation.
AKorede Jaiyeola is an HND2 student of the department of Mass Communication
Re SUG Election
The writer seems to be ignorant of what he is writing on, or he is deliberately mischievous. As a journalist, even if you are to give your personal opinion, you should first state the facts of the case before you conclude based on how you feel it should be. This write-up lacks that.
In any case, I love critical minds which are based on objectivity.
Olusegun Aninkan