Politics of Mediocrity as the Cause of Underdevelopment in Nigeria

ABSTRACT
Ideas are crucial in confronting political challenges of society. The right ideas, when
contemplated by leaders, are deployed to develop society for satisfactory and
comfortable existence of citizens. Yet, this is sometimes not the case in some societies.
Leaders, who ought to contemplate right ideas for developing society sometimes
contemplate wrong ones or act complacently to existing wrong ideas. This is
problematic. It leads to either total underdevelopment of a society or an averagely
developed one. Since individuals are never completely evil and, as such, leadership
ideas are never completely wrong, societies organized by averagely right leadership
ideas are constantly poorly developed. This characterizes the political mediocrity and
its consequential poorly developed state of affairs plaguing the Nigerian nation. This
essay utilizes analytical method of philosophizing to posit that the human person, being
an embodiment of ideas (both right and wrong), needs to deploy the right ones to
govern society so as to develop it. Specifically, it avers that Nigerian leaders (both
actual and prospective) need to avoid deploying mediocre ideas in governance so as to
develop the nation and offer citizens satisfactory and comfortable living. Also, the
follower ship, which works to elect into public offices corrupt persons who buy votes or
are nepotically connected to them, needs to shun such acts if genuine development is
desired