‘Emi Lo Kan’ politics, according to Citadel Global Community Church Presiding Overseer Pastor Tunde Bakare, will produce dictatorship in the nation.
This statement was delivered by Bakare on Sunday at a state of the country address at his church in Ikeja, Lagos.
The preacher denounced “emi lo kan” politics and characterized those who share this orientation as intolerable.
Speaking on the subject of “Bridging The Gap Between Politics & Governance,” Bakare emphasized that harmful types of politics include those that promote divisiveness, deceit, manipulation, commerce, exploitation, treachery, defamation, intimidation, elimination, and entitlement.
According to Bakare, a Presidential aspirant for the All-Progressives Congress (APC) in 2023, “emi lo kan” politics solely seeks to satisfy long-standing personal desires.
This ’emi lo kan’ politics that insists on one’s turn even when conditions are not favorable, according to Bakare, is harmful. Politics of entitlement can also take the form of ongoing campaigns, which are run not with the intention of serving the public but rather to fulfill personal aspirations.
“It could also manifest as insistence on a given political office as a reward for what one considers a lifetime of sacrifice to the nation. Politicians with a sense of entitlement evade political debates; they do not consider it imperative to communicate with the electorate.
“Entitlement politics will breed an imperial presidency that is distant from the people and has no sense of responsibility or accountability to the people. Such imperial governance will slide towards dictatorship and will be intolerant of dissent.
“Entitlement politicians set low performance benchmarks for themselves when they secure power and are content with projecting molehills as mountains of achievement.”
“Emi lo kan” simply means “it is my turn” in Yoruba. In the run-up to the APC primary election in June 2022, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the party’s presidential candidate, popularized the phrase in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
