Having convinced you that you can actually be actively involved in politics without contesting elections, let's consider the steps you need to take to get started.

1. Identify your Ward:

The ward is the smallest unit of Government in Politics. The Political Head of a Ward is called Councilor. Every politician must compulsorily be a card-carrying member of a political party at the ward level. This however is with the exception of those who choose to contest election as or support independent candidates. Your ward is not necessarily your home town but the locality where you will most conveniently carry out your political activities. It is also advisable that you also register with INEC as a voter in this ward.

2. Make the Choice of Political Party:

Consider the available political parties in your area and make a choice. I advise you study the manifesto and constitution of the party you want to join and agree that you align with her. Unfortunately, in Nigeria's nascent democracy, ideology is not well defined in the existing political parties, therefore, they almost share basic ideologies.

3. Get involved in Ward activities:

The least you can do as a politician is to attend your ward meetings. Get deeply involved at this stage. Contribute at meetings and assist once in a while in footing party bills either in kind or cash. This not easy and takes time and plenty of efforts. Once in a while, sponsor refreshments at meetings or volunteer to transport some members to meetings or other activities.

4. Identify like-minded believers in the party to relate with:

This is very important as decision are taken in politics based on majority of opinions. It is important that you align with your own class of people to ensure that decisions taken are not to the disadvantage of your interest.

5. Relate Well With The leaders:

That you want to make changes in the politics of your environment does not mean castigating existing leaders. Celebrate them for the good they have done and be silent on their evils, at least for a start. Success in politics is about who you know and not necessarily what you know.

6. Volunteer to be part of Campaigns/Party Activities:

Every political campaign and political activity needs hard workers. If you want to get an idea of how politics really work, walk into any campaign office of a candidate and offer to help out. You'll likely be asked to do what appears to be menial work at first, things like helping to register new voters or making phone calls and/or test messages on behalf of a candidate. But if you do the job well, you'll be given more responsibilities and more visible roles in the campaign.

7. Pay attention to Political Information:

Unfortunately many are political illiterates. Before you get into politics, you ought to know what you're talking about and be able to hold an intelligent and thoughtful conversations about the issues. Local politicians and indeed the community respect you when you have better information at hand. That alone makes you a point of reference in your locality. Therefore, read your local newspaper(s), statewide newspapers and national newspapers. Be alive on the social media for information.

8. Get involved in your Community:

Attend Landlords/Residents meetings. Network with and be in good terms with local groups e.g The Vigilante, etc. Build coalitions dedicated to changing and improving your town such as the CDA or Tribal Unions. PTA meetings and Cooperative Societies are equally good places to be for upcoming politicians.

9. Build character and good name:

A good name is better than silver and gold. As corrupt as our society is, a good name still speaks volume. Strive to build for yourself and generations after you a good name. In whatever capacity you are entrusted with responsibility, make a good opportunity to leave a lasting impression in the hearts of the people.

10. If you must contest, start small:

There is no spirituality in insisting that certaini
offices are too small for you. Start from the grassroots and gradually work your way to the top. "All politics is local."

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very insightful, if only there is a way party process could be automated, like registering on a party website with an I.D or PVC and having meetings via forums or chat rooms, and general meeting once in a while. Party dues can be paid with ATM transaction

ok

lol u will need a God father like a big Genrator Backup and you will need a Babalawo to give u juju and odieshi... den u ar good to go.

How to be rich...in Nigeria.

Go to school, study hard, get a good job and presto money will start showering you.

easy ticket to be a politician for Nigeria, become an hausa boy and everything will fall in place


if you know you know

11) All this na plenty talk, get a godfather wey dey influential for him party.
12) Know how to lie, in fact study how to lie cos you need to lie pass lie Mohammed.

Make plenty monies first before joining this people so they can accord you your needed respects else they'll just be using you as a party mopping stick and brooms. My one cent.
By the way, it's seems there's been a kind of change to the nairaland platform, I've been observing it since morning, now pages starts from 1 not 0 anymore. A positive development I guess.

Basic
Be a thug
Be shameless
To contest for any post:
Be greedy insensitive to other's need, be manipulative.

To be a follower
Have a house boy/house nigger mentality.
be ready to kill for the ones you support.. foam at the mouth and be ready to display rage when anyone criticises your master.

Above all stupidly believe that one leader will come, wave a magic wand and niggeria will cease to be a shithole

I laughed immediately i saw the topic because i imagined one astute, ruthless, frank underwood~like personality giving the tutorial.........

Where b this

Ok

After joining, this is how to win elections in Nigeria

So that someone will break bottle on my head.
I'm a gentleman.

Thanks.

Good topic and awesome content.

My two cents.

Be very humble and understand that your audience might act indifferent at first, however, time, resiliency and consistency will tell.

11. Be a regular jerk or brutal thug.

Nigerians would accept you gladly.

Sick bastards!

Insightful indeed but something scares me. Political parties at those local levels are turning more into cultist fight, considering political killings here are there. How do one play safe. Or we should just stick out our head and hope we are safe

If you do all these and no sabi person, na every 4 years, your face go dey poster but nothing for you.


Between, politics no be person work.
Every one ought to have a job and do politics as a part time venture to add value to the society.

11. Throw your conscience away

Very insightful, i am going to save this, i have been thinking of how to be a member of a party, this week i just registered as a member, we the youth should join the polity and not just be a mere observer, we shouldn't allow these old men to continue ruling us this way, we were once told we are the leaders of tomorrow, if all of us can just come together under one umbrella it will help to rescue our dying nation

It will be great to see more youths in politics but @OP you need not follow that process...

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1. Do yahoo yahoo or swindle someone else.

2. Make sure you hit at least 5 billion.

3. Find a Godfather in either APC or PDP.

4. Support your Godfather with 500 million in his political ambition.

5. Run for Federal House of Reps alongside your Godfather this will buy you at protection from the EFCC.

6. Win you if go to step 7 if you lose go back to step 3 until you win, end up in jail or go broke.

7. Spend the next 4 years quietly in the lower house while building contact in the EFCC.

8. While you quietly destroy your case and associated evidence, start identifying with the leadership of the senate. you will need them for the next step.

9. Your cash stash must be going down now so you need a refill, therefore you need a chairmanship of a juicy committee. Your relationship with the leadership of the house would be integral to securing this. We are in your second term in the lower house btw.

10. The Senate seat or Governorship should be getting ready for you by now, so start castigating the governor or the senator. you need local radio stations, social media and a few mundane philanthropic gestures like distributing exercise books to assist you with this steps.

To be continued

op everything you wrote there makes sense except the Heading. the heading should be "HOW TO JOIN POLITICS IN A SANE COUNTRY"

we all know how to join politics in Nigeria.

Mosesoly:
Very insightful, i am going to save this, i have been thinking of how to be a member of a party, this week i just registered as a member, we the youth should join the polity and not just be a mere observer, we shouldn't allow these old men to continue ruling us this way, we were once told we are the leaders of tomorrow, if all of us can just come together under one umbrella it will help to rescue our dying nation

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Sorry to say this but politics in nigeria is for criminals and insane people, thieves looters and robbers, I rest my case

ceejay80s:
Sorry to say this but politics in nigeria is for criminals and insane people, thieves looters and robbers, I rest my case

...Nigeria...

GrammarNazi1:

...Nigeria...

We don't need capital letter for Nigeria anymore, other African countries have reduced us to nothing , from giant to toddler

Politics na big business

.........this Niger parties, or foreign parties?