Dear All.
The lottery system bodes no goodwill if implemented. It is not for nothing that the Yoruba system opine ' A kii f' ologbob sile ka fi omugo j'oba': we do not bypass the sagaciousvto enthrone the witless.
It is true that those qualified do not often let the nation benefit from their qualifications; we have debated this issue on this forum and put the blame squarely at the feet of the warped value system of capitalist presidential system that undercuts its own goals of giving an appropriate answer to the philosophical questions: what is a good society and who is a successful citizen of a good society.
The answer to these questions which has not spared the Christian evangelical society for example is: they that can demonstrate material success especially with superlative acquisition of wealth; the more the merrier. Hence religious leaders count God's blessing before congregation by the provision of sleek Mercedes limousines and the private jetsetting pastor. And we wonder why electiins are rigged and are do or die affair!
Playing lottery without first wittling down those to be input into the lottery system by qualification will invariably produce a chaotic and ungovernable society. The part lottery part qualification process is what is involved in the Yoruba selection of rulers through the If a divination system. It is a modulated electoral college system that predates the western electoral colkege system because it is not bogged diwn by vote buying ( the Ifa priests cannot be bought)
Candidates of the ruling houses are equally qualified and the faggot vendors on the streets do not belong in this qualifications even though some of the prospective royals ( who may eventually get selected and enthroned) may only be slightly materially better off that those faggot sellers.
It is ironically a modification of this system that produced Buhari over the richer Atiku in his first term and the just concluded presidential elections. It is a similar system that ensured the electoral victory of the late Baroness Thatcher over the fabulously wealthy Lord Heseltine who has groomed himself as a future prime minister from his youth before Baroness Thatcher ever developed any interest in politics.
OAA
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From: Nimi Wariboko <nimiwari@msn.com>
Date: 27/02/2019 13:36 (GMT+00:00)
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Cc: Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu>
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nigerian Election: Let us Try the Lottery System
Dear All:
As we debate, decry, or celebrate the results of the Nigerian presidential election I want to put before you another option for choosing leaders or legislators in the country: the alternative method of election by lot, sortition. I published an essay on this in September 2017 in the Premium Times and the link is provided below. Since I published this essay I have been contacted my many people all over the world who have been pushing for a similar method of selection of leaders in democratic countries. Ireland employs something like this in its political system; deploying it when dealing with the constitutional prohibition against abortion. Kofi Annah before he died started advocating for the lottery system of selection.
Thanks,
Nimi Wariboko
Boston University
United States
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