WHY I MAKE MY KIND OF POLITICAL SUPPORT.

Many a politician have called in to ask me how and why I usually make the kind of decisions I make in terms of the type of candidates I present to my audience. A lot more friends have also chosen to see me as an enemy because of how I press hard on my candidates and choices. For them, I do not allow any other views. It is tyrannical to them and unaccountable.

One of the essential difference I have with other political class is that I do not support with victory at the polls as the end. Winning in an election for me is a means to an end. And guess what the end is to me? I will tell you as we drive down. 

In my deepest consciousness and subconscious state, I have tried countless times to apply the tools of philosophical objectivism on myself using the scales of phenomenological epoche or bracketing of phenomenology. I have searched myself and my mind to find out why I do what I do and why I decide to support the type of candidates I support. I could find only one answer to the reason why I struggle each day to support anyone I support in politics.

At all the time, my answer has dragged me back to the crux of utilitarianism which is a philosophical school of thought with the great charter; "the greatest interest of the greatest number".

That consistent answer to my unending self-examination has, perhaps since politics is a species axiology, been attuned and acclimatised to ethical utilitarianism. And to this end I can gladly tell you that the determination of my choice of leaders, and especially my presidential candidate in this presidential election of 2023, is just "the greatest good of the greatest number of Nigerians".

I have, maybe, been fascinated by philosophical utilitarianism on this all important issue because I do not want to be as undemocratic as truth. Of course, I have taken to this submission because I understand the latitude of choice and the freewill of the rest. It is for this reason that I go with the greatest number.

Call it anything you wish, but as a Philosopher I go with the tyranny of the majority (or majoritarian tyranny) in the sense of the "quantity of good to the quantity of persons". I take up and imbibe this idea for a reason; I know and agree that the minority should always have their say while the majority must always have their way.

But note that when I say the majority, I only intend to mean the amount of good therein for the largest number of our people. I am also therefore not unmindful of sadism and sadists. They are not my concern because they will remain in the minority since they fall within the labyrinthine of the abnormal. Those who wish evil upon themselves exist but they can be counted on your fingers because abnormal things come in singles.

In conclusion therefore, my choice is a factor of more good to more of our citizens. A better and greater society for all... 

God bless Nigeria!

I am,

KEMKA S. IBEJI