They are the concentrated voices of the people that make all efforts
to improve their constituencies and peoples' welfare. Good and
dependable politicians are delight to serve the people and consider
themselves as servants and people their paymasters. They represent the
hopes, aspirations and the interests of every citizen in the state.
The government instituted among men is the elected representatives who
are also known as the politicians. These politicians are required to
implement social reforms and policy measures that contribute to the
general welfare of the populace.
A politician's qualities are his characters that are natural, while
some of the qualities are as a result of external influences.
Promising politicians qualities are often backed by skills,
experiences, intelligence, integrity, with instincts -all combined
together to achieve their goals. First and foremost, the best quality
of a politician is honesty, God fearing and loving. A faithful and
effective politician is trustworthy and reliable. He must capture the
essence of truth, display sincerity, candour and practices what he
preaches. He makes decisions and accepts responsibility for his
actions and his words. The same is true in his dealing with his
people. He makes promises and keeps those promises. Somebody that
people may be relied upon. Loving people with all his heart, might,
mind, soul and striving to help them as a true mark of responsible
politician.
Moreover, a fake politician, will after taking the oath of office with
the Holy book and lousy thanksgiving services, use their power as an
end in itself, rather than for public good, making them indifferent to
the progress of their citizens. A good politician becomes the image of
his creator. A good and responsible politician will give high regard
for morality, law abiding with no tendencies to corrupt even a single
cent or kobo. The greatest strength of good politicians is deriving
joy in serving people and not to steal tax payers money. They know
that a fulfilling and meaningful life is created through service to
others. To be an effective politician, your followers must have trust
in you. And the very best way for a politician to build trust is to
display good sense of characters and qualities composed of values,
beliefs, traits and skills.
Another important quality of a good politician is integrity and
technical skills to handle those challenging assignments, fiscal
matters, policies, plans, projects, ideas and initiative solutions to
problems. Integrity is consistency of actions, methods, measures,
values, principles, expectations and outcomes. It is doing what is
right, both legally and morally at all time even when no one is
looking. Since politicians play very significant roles in the
administrative processes, especially having hands in thousands of
important laws and policies to their communities and country, they
should be well-educated, modest, with experience in social welfare,
volunteering or should have done some good work for the society. A
politician should have a thorough knowledge and up-to-date information
about the constituency where he is going to contest an election.
Sir Winston Churchill, a famous British politician who served as Prime
Minister twice (1940-45) and (1951-55) once said that “ a politician
must have “the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow,
next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability
afterwards to explain why it didn't happen”. Hence, a political career
is meant for the people of high integrity and additional skills to
achieve results and finding better ways of making life better for the
people they represent. Politics are not meant for dropped-outs, area
fathers, thugs, assassins, criminals, illiterates’ god-fathers, inept,
dubious and corrupt politicians. These person, apart from being greedy
doesn't know the importance of education and can never invest properly
on it. Good governance, transparency and accountability will be
eluding states and nations where these above mentioned set of people
found themselves in the corridor of power.
An incompetent and irresponsible politician will make people to hang
around his house like bees to honey to feed them with “amala”, “tuwo”
or “eba”just for days. He prefers to give out expensive gifts,
donations and bribes from tax-payers money to win elections. An
achiever will not need to do such things to win elections or people to
their side in all ramifications. That is why you will hear people
saying “Politics is a bad game of deceit and hatred”, “Politics is a
do or die affair”, “Politics is a dirty business”, “Politicians are
very sick people” and so on. It is those politicians of limited merits
and capabilities that are bad and not politics. They cannot do more
than their moral and intellectual capacity. A true democratic
government is the best concept for the growth of any nation. A good
politician enriches lives and feeds souls of many people and not
making them to become beggars, touts, kidnappers, armed-robbers and
fraudsters.
A good politician should be of a well disciplined personality with
selfless service to make live better for his people. This should be
reflected in the community where he lives in all ramifications.
Discipline is necessary for an orderly society and political life,
without it, the social life would become miserable. A selfless service
is putting the welfare of the people you're representing before your
own. Winston Churchill described it as “the first of all human
qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others”. A
good politician firmly believes in taking care and maintaining the
community of his people. He believes that community service is about
giving back. According to Theodore Roosevelt, “the most successful
politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in
the loudest voice”. A person or politician who is with criminal
background, or any links with criminals or whose allegations on
corruption have not been cleared by the law court should be
disqualified to participate in elections.
Responsibility and party loyalty is another quality of responsible
politician in a democratic state. A transparent politician is nearer
to his people and meeting them to understand their problems. Only fake
politicians are seen by voters when an election is near or change
parties as footballers change clubs. As every parent has its
responsibility to teach their children the principles of moral,
culture, truth, sincerity to be self- responsible, so politicians need
to integrate its citizens with importance of political responsibility
and democratic values. A politician leads by example and knows his
minimum responsibilities as an elected representative. A politician
comes to politics to work for his constituents and not to work against
them. He is the beck and call of the people and ready to listen to
everybody. All these build a strong foundation for a dynamic society
which will create solutions for any challenges, and finally develop
strategies and political systems that will help implement those
solutions automatically. He is quick to give hand to his fellow man. A
reliable politician should be very loyal and committed to his party
which shares his vision and goals. The value of loyalty simply depends
on trust. A citizen should belong to a party with most brilliant,
skilful, patriotic and dynamic people with common goals and
aspirations. Team work best when they have common goals, mutual
respect and understanding of each party member's strength. Politics is
to unite and reach consensus and not to divide or create enmity among
people. Power is only a product of collective action.
Finally, to become a great politician or statesman, you have to use
your talents, skills, experiences, honesty, integrity, challenges and
constraints with the positive effect that we can have in touching
other human lives. Politician must leave his constituency better than
before elected. Greatness is within reach of a politician who
consistently do things they out to be doing. He learns from mistakes
and criticisms. It is a bad politician that will see that all the good
is in his side and that all the bad lies with his opponent or just
because someone does not agree with him, does not mean that all their
ideas and solutions are bad. Good politicians show respect to the
views and experience of others. Nobody has a monopoly of wisdom. He
who aspires to be a great politician should have the ability to find
and analyse problems in their constituency and find the best solutions
for all these problems. There is no problem in this world without
solutions. A good politician knows that simply giving consistent
effort in the little task of services, social reforms, kindness or
sacrifice in day-to-day life leads to true greatness of a nation. If
all politicians make it a point of responsibility to develop and make
life better for people in their units, wards, constituencies, states
and regions-we will definitely have a great country
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