PRINCE FRANK UKONGA
LECTURE SERIES 3
NIGERIA 2015 POLLS:
THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SOCIAL DEMOCRACY: NIGERIAN CASE STUDY.
BY PRINCE FRANK
UKONGA.
The philosophy of Social
Democracy is a complete thesis on how to govern a society to higher standards
of rectitude, progress and prosperity. For a complete philosophical thesis, a concept
must satisfy both the necessity reason de entre as well as the sufficiency
premises of coming to being.
Classical social democratic
values hold strongly the aspects of A posteriori knowledge as its fundamental
question of philosophy and dispute the aspects of transcendentalism and
idealism of theology as causality of origin of Homo sapiens. Which implies that
Social Democracy orchestrates the materialist philosophy of the origin of man
in our planet described by fore runners as a manifestation of the big bang
theory of evolution, Though in the Nigerian context most social Democrats
overlook this fundamental theory of scientific atheism as the stronghold of
social democracy from which all other theories of social democracy emanates and
perhaps try to make an adaptation of it by hynating it with religious bigotry.
Materialist and historical atheism
asserts that our world is knowable and a consequence of things in themselves
and that man evolved from lower Animals through an evolution that took many
millions of years to achieve. This as a foreground the first theory of
Historical and dialectical materialism was molded that: Human beings determines
consciousness,; which originated from medieval materialist philosophers of
Anahimenes, Anahimenda and Al Farid this was later developed by the Hegelian
Philosophy in to a brilliant whole while later Karl Marx and Fredrick Angels
developed it into a school called Marxism and Vladimir Lenin was the first to
adapt it into the Soviet Revolution as Marxism Leninism. Chairman Mao also
adapted it to the Chinese Revolution and subsequently other Nations began to
adopt various brands of Social Democracy.
Social democratic theory and
practice is guided by a number of postulations that has become scientific and
perhaps could be called laws, among which include the followings;
1. That
all men are born equal and as citizen of a polity has inalienable rights to
life, security, freedom, jobs, housing, food, good health care, free education
etc
2. The
laws of social transformation, classification and revolution
3. The
Laws of spiral spring of Negation of de negation
4. The
laws of scientific atheism
5. The
laws of quantitative transformation to qualitative
6. The laws of scientific communism.
In the aspects of political
economy social democracy advocates the followings;
1. Central
economic planning model
2. Abolition
of private sector economy and capitalism
3. Recommend
a temporal mixed economy in the primordial stage of social democracy which will
collapse into the central economic planning model
4. Aim
toward a complete abolition of paper/coined money
5. Abhorrence
of market driven economic models in preference for the Keynesian fiscal
budgeting models.
6. Abolition
of the stock exchange market and all other features of capitalism
7. Abolition
of private ownership of means of productions and public properties, giant
infrastructures, utility companies, large cooperatives, banks, schools,
universities, gsm telecommunication networks, electricity, water, hospitals,
radio and television stations, airlines, shipping lines, oil blocks,
refineries, oil wells, cement companies, rolling mills, churches, bread
factories, flour mills, etc . All to be owned by the state and administered on
behalf of the good of the generality of the public.
8. Provision
of first class infrastructures’ for the benefit of all citizens as in first
class roads, airports and cheap airfares, modern airplanes, modern railway with
new modern coaches all over Nigeria, modern bridges, modern canals, a first
class drainage system to avoid flooding, top quality schools for free education
at all levels, a comprehensive health delivery system with modern hospitals
with state of art equipments, generation and distribution of electricity 24/7,
no more power outage or blackout, youth and women empowerment, formation of numerous
cottage industries in all 774 Local Govts of the country, Local Govt autonomy, jobs
for all, food for all, health for all, housing for all, strong defense and
strong police and other para military forces well equipped and well funded, strengthening
of all institutions in the country from judiciary to electoral to education,
higher institutions, banking, insurance, aviation, shipping etc to up to date
international standard practice of social democrats. Curbing of Looting and
corruption, Dedicated to strict discipline and accountability. Moral education
and ethics to be thought in all schools as in the molding and making of a new
human being of the social democratic standard in terns of behavior , dressing,
speaking, eating, marriage, culture, friendship, thinking, furnishing and
furniture, houses and design of houses, painting, printing, horticultures,
architecture etc ,all must conform to social democratic standards.
9. Social democracy abhor decadent culture, abhor
junk culture and behavior, indiscipline, disobedience of civil and traffic
laws, rudeness, crude dressing, nudity, pornography, rape, cultism, drunkenness,
youth and adult delinquency, careless talking, telling lies, greediness,
lackadaisical mentality, laager mentality, ingratitude, madness, imbecility, lateness,
laziness, oversleeping, over eating ,wastefulness, superflux, slothfulness, lustfulness,
sluggishness, dirtiness, smoking of Indian hemp, smoking of morocco, smoking of
sensimila, drugs of cocaine, heroin, etc everything under social democratic
ethics must be classic, rectitude, upright to the international standard
practiced recommended by social democratic fore runners.
10. The international standard practice of
behavior acceptable to social democrats the world over is the standards of the
adamantine Golden Rules of pattern of ethics and Meta ethical resolves
addressed to re humanize and reinvent declining mankind of subsequent creation.
In the Nigerian case study only General
Murtala Mohammed’s Government moved towards the establishment of social
democracy as in when he nationalized all big companies, banks and cooperatives
in Nigeria, declared free education at all levels and made provision for free
health services, jobs for all etc and curtailed the expansion of capitalism and
private ownership of means of production to its lowest ebb of sundry ownership.
He believed in social democracy of the government managing all the big sectors
of the economy on behalf of the general good of the peoples of Nigeria, and his
government till today was adjudged the best government Nigeria ever had.
Chief Obafemi Awolowo was the first to establish a
government of Social Democracy in Western Region when he expertly managed the
cocoa resources of Western Region to declare free education at all levels, free
health services to all citizen of Western Region, jobs for all, food and shelter
for all etc. This made the Western Region to frog jump into the future in the
aspects of development in all facets of life and it is the most developed
region in Nigeria today as well as most developed in sub Saharan Africa and
perhaps in Africa on regional basis. So this is a glaring proof that the
government of Social democracy hold the best good for the majority of peoples
the world over.
In contemporary
times in Nigeria only the SDMP- SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC MEGA PARTY of Chief Olu Falae
under which umbrella Prince Frank Ukonga
contested the Senate and the Edo governorship elections and presently to
contest the Presidency in 2015 has a truly social democratic manifesto and
great programs for the majority of
peoples in Nigeria. As well the NATIONAL REFORMATION PARTY of Chief Antony
Enahoro is also having a similar social democratic manifesto and if these two
political parties come to power in Nigeria, the country will leap forward in
great speed toward greatness.
Prince Frank Ukonga
, a great social democrat, well schooled in the theory and practice of social
democracy is planning to unit these two great political parties SDMP/NRP into
one formidable platform to contest the 2015 presidential election in Nigeria;
addressed to become the president of the Nigerian Federation in 2015 and to
take Nigeria to the promised land of social democratic ideals. Whence this is a
great opportunity ,for you to join hands with Prince Frank Ukonga to take
Nigeria to the promise land.
