GOSIMKAMFUNANYA: THE UNIQUENESS OF POLITICS

"It is well known that Nigeria's political style ONLY favours the political godfathers and not the people."
~ Yakubu Dogara (Former Speaker Of The House of Representatives).

That might seem true until you come across human-centred issue-based politics. This can be considered a healthy political style, one devoid of greed, godfatherism and fraudulent activities; a human-based policy respects fundamental human values.

When something is labelled as “human-based,” it simply implies it proactively speaks to the creativity and activity of a thing, with more emphasis on the value/welfare of people.

A person who practices human-based politics is a person who truly and easily opens his arms to the people, such a person is not a leader per se, he is a teacher and servant of the people.
This style of leadership engenders effective communication between the leader and his people because he is always accessible, lends an attentive ear to his people, always defends them and strives to grant answers to their various requests (brings home dividends of democracy).

It is synonymous with the democratic style of politics where people govern themselves directly or indirectly because they are fully involved in what happens around them.
They speak freely to their leaders and formulate demands for their communities which are satisfied directly or indirectly after this demand has been weighed in priority by their representatives.

Such traits are found in Senator Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah's political style which is purely humane, equitable and self-governing - a style that matches actions with words, with promises seeing the light of the day (Security, Empowerment, Political exposure, Dividends, and many more).

The 'Gosimkamfunanya' style can be translated to the 'Grassroot movement' being that it is associated with participatory democracy which requires a larger system of governance. The gosimkamfunanya/grassroot movement is attributed to bottom-up, rather than top-down decision-making, and is sometimes considered more natural and spontaneous than the usual traditional power structures.

He is the servant of the people who goes all the way for the people, zealously and fearlessly.
He is not an autocrat who seeks power for himself alone, but a great team player who grooms by serving as a 'solid ladder of success', big or small, his arms are always open to new, positive and resourceful ideas.

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