Atiku’s Associate On Betrayal: Your Character Reveals Who You Are

Recently, the expression “body language” crept into our political dictionary. The expression gained prominence under the administration of Muhammadu Buhari (APC). He was one leader who rarely talked but rather left Nigerians to decipher him from his body language. Body language leaves one neither here nor there as silence could be as a result of incompetence and emptiness but far from intellectual superiority.

Rather than body language for “there’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face”, as Shakespeare pointed out many years ago, a Benin  proverb which says that, “one’s character is like clothes spread outside. Only the passers-by will determine its cleanness, “remains a better judge of character and a person. 

Our actions and utterances convey our character. What we say and do is a reflection of who we are. Just like no man can identify the pregnancy that would produce a king, none can read a man’s mind from his face. The human mind finds expression in words and actions.

I have ceased being amazed at betrayals, especially in Nigerian politics. Our politics is, unfortunately, at the level of selfish participation. Politicians use parties and individuals as special purpose vehicles to achieve personal political goals. This definitely accounts for easy defections, brazen anti-party activities, and betrayals. 

Today, politics is played without political ideology, and where there’s none, politics is then played without decorum.

Betrayals become the norm as politics has become an all comers world. The judiciary has not helped matters as it has upheld cases based on technicalities. Thus, we find participants whose characters can not be vouched for occupying positions of trust. Such characters would easily betray trust and loyalty because there’s no honour among thieves in the environment they are coming from.

No matter the pretence, no matter the level of subterfuge employed, one’s character ultimately betrays who we are. Betrayal diminishes and utterly removes the dignity of man. A man without dignity is a living corpse. The man in him is dead.

May God give us the strength and willingness to forgive those who betray us in our life’s journey.

Senator Ehigie Uzamere served as a Special Adviser to H.E. Atiku Abubakar during the 2023 Presidential Campaign and before then represented Edo South Senatorial District from 2007 to 2015 becoming the first man to serve two terms from the Senatorial District and remarkably on the platform of two different political parties.

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