Political Recruitment Procedure in Nigeria

policy-making Recruitment Procedure in NigeriaTHE RELEVANCE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION TO POLITICAL RECRUITMENT IN NIGERIABYFranklins A. SANUBI, PhD segment of Political Science, Delta State University, Abraka, NigeriaKEYWORDS Entrepreneurship Education, Political Recruitment, Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneuring.ABSTRACTThe continuing influx of non professionals into c altogether(prenominal)er semi policy-making relation in Nigeria has created the challenges of dangerous governance and many hove asked the question of how to rid the political space of neophytes. One explanation for this phenomenon is provided in the customary political recruitment procedure in Nigeria. Entrepreneurship nurture has provided some philosophical rotating shaft for establishing a sure political recruitment border. This paper examines the family and provides some recommendations on the process of ensuring good recruitments into our party governing spectrum.A. INTRODUCTIONPerhaps the only comm erce in Nigeria today where the free entry and free rifle principle of a perfect market system is operational is the vocation of party politics as populate from all known professional backgrounds have found it a treasure ground of resort. It is in fact needless to ask an fairish political leader where he or she got training in party politics. Regrettably, political recruitment process in Nigeria is very simple and without any major technical requirements, stack toilette enroll at any point in time into party politics. The only requirement, if anything else, is your availableness the amount of readiness demonstrated by the aspiring individual to attend party meetings and caucuses. Just draw up down your name and attend one or two political party meetings and you be on your way to becoming a big time politico in Nigeria.This is the point where we come to let off the prevalence of political neophytes at the respective(a) levels of public policy making in Nigeria as all manne r of people both with questionable and unquestionable backgrounds in the management of public resources find themselves in the realm of summitership simply because of a faulty recruitment process into the vocation of party politics in Nigeria. Thus, you find medical doctors, teachers, motor drivers, auto mechanics, pastors or other religious leaders, retail cheat owners and jobless individuals all involved in party politics as practitioners of a profession that relies a good deal on number of people as its major asset.Leave politics for the politicians is often the advice given by those who do not find any need to become one. Yet there is hardly a clear definition of who is or (should be) a politician in Nigeria since it has become an all-corners affair.With such a ostensibly irreversible phenomenon of political recruitment, the chal1eng to policymakers therefore is to create entrepreneurship educational portfolios where recruits into party politics in Nigeria would develop skil ls of the, vocation to squander opportunities offered by the prevailing political ( vexation) environments.B. ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION A CONCEPTUAL CLARIFICATIONExperts in the message matter of history of education have credited ancient Greek civilization with its emphasis position not only on citizenship scarcely in like manner on entrepreneurship education. With massive curricular contents favouring the kidskins ability to use available materials through practical skills to create innovative learning outcomes, an average Athenian schoolboy knows that he has to imbibe a slopped culture of entrepreneurship education.Entrepreneurship education seeks to provide students with the knowledge, skills and motivation to support entrepreneurial success in a variety of settings. (Block Stumpf, 1992) The classic picture of entrepreneurship education (also known as intrapreneurship education) as given by its major proponent Gifford Pinchot, is its distinctive focus on the realization of fortune under any given setting (Pinchot, 1985). The ability of the individual to see the opportunity and utilize it for a successful outcome marks the signifi gagece of entrepreneurship education (Pinchot Pellman, 1985). Although closely related to management education which focuses on the best way to operate within existing hierarchy and structures, entrepreneurship education like the signifierer butts make making. Profit making, in this circumstance does not necessarily imply increased monetary benefits, but may also be (especially in non-profit organizations or governments) in terms of enhanced social operate or decreased costs. It could also be explained in terms of increased responsiveness to the customer/citizen/ lymph node on such services being provided.Realizing problem opportunity piece of ass be achieved, by orientating entrepreneurship education towards several directions including Entrepreneurship (the ownership) of a refreshed business, such as opening a new cheat on or small scale industry interpreneurship (which involves the promotion of innovation or the introduction of new products or services or markets within existing environments or organization without having to start a separate (new) business unit (Pinchot, 2000). This may be made possible through research and innovative initiative among entrepreneurs. aim for example, a food vendor who sells within a given business environment and suddenly discovers that the target clientele is expanding due to some expansionary activities of the neighboring companies resulting in their employment of new staffers. Intrapreneurship requires that the food vendor can no longer operate within his existing budget if he is to maximize profits. He does not need to be educated on the desirability of budgetary expansion to enable him create an dogmatic capacity for his new clients demand. A third orientation relates to what experts call social entrepreneur which involves creating charitable org anizations (or portions of existing charities) designed to be self-supporting in addition to doing their good works.Intrapreneurship may lead to a phenomenon described as clustering. Clustering occurs when a group of employers breaks from a p arnt company to form a new company but continues to do business with the parent organization as in the popular Silicon Valley clusters. This phenomenon is common among lawyers who while working under existing legal put up do break out often to undertake some business ventures without having to quit their existing house entirely.Pinchot believes that entrepreneurship releases the energy in the direction of deep personal values while also it is a tool for releasing the creativity, values and entrepreneurial spirit of people who work in large corporations. When you free people from fear and bureaucratic restraint, they are likely to choose innovation projects that serve their deeper values (Pinchot 1985) Intrapreneurs have a great zeal to be inn ovative and a drive to ownership. The entrepreneurial sence of independence is so postgraduate among intrapreneurs that Pinchot in his ten commandments of Intrapreneuring describes their attitude in work organizations as people who come to work day by day willing to be fired.For a productive and profit-oriented business success, intrapreneurship education is very useful. What relevance therefore, can there be, of entrepreneurship education to political recruitment in the Nigerian policy and how may we define the cable television of congruence between these variables.C. ASSESSING THE RELEVANCE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION TO POLITICAL RECRUITMENT IN NIGERIAPorter (1994) has established a relationship between entrepreneurship education and business education. We can extend this discourse by establishing some relationship between entrepreneurship education and political recruitment in Nigeria. Political recruitment is a process by which citizens are selected for involvement in poli tics. Party system is the most important mechanism of political recruitment, The process of political recruitment involves two levels namely recruitment of power elite, that is, party and government cadres and the recruitment of grassroots membership who provide political support for party programmes and policies. The recruitment of grassroots may involve a historical process whereby certain cadres of the society are targeted for recruitment e.g. peasant workers and revolutionary youths, and this is then followed by the recruitment of workers, students and rebellion youths and then the recruitment of professional and educated youths. The recruitment provides a stage of political screening such as the examination of class origin, political attitude, political participation or clientelism. Clientelism in the view of Protsyk Matichescu (2009) involves contingent direct exchanges between political actors and both vote-rich and resource-rich constituencies. At the initial point, the ro le of educational credentials in political recruitment may be irrelevant, but with time, become positive or negative and finally very important.The relevance of entrepreneurship education to political recruitment in Nigeria can be established in several ways. Firstly, entrepreneurship education provides the individual with the strong initiative to succeed in his political career. There is a strong imperative to see party politics as not still a game being played by two or much persons, but more importantly as a field where excellence in service is required. The individual will take ownership of his challenges with a strong sense of judgment that being a politician can be onerous and requires a lot of responsibility and expectations from the society in terms of excellent service to the people.Entrepreneurship education can help promote the spirit of innovativeness among people who chose to enlist in party politics. The individual utilizes all new opportunity in his political env ironment to create new political images of success. For instance, a politician who observes that there is a growing school enrolment among children in his community and or neighbouring communities would devise new creative political slogans or even manifestoes that will appeal to the immediate passions of his proposed electorate. It is needless for an aspiring politician targeting upland dwellers to propose programmes designed or fitting for riverine areas such as riverine transport system.Entrepreneurship education would allay political education especially in rural or unenlightened communities as individual aspirant would localize training techniques or apply local technologies to provide the relevant learning materials to his subjects. This will also help in reducing costs to the ultimate advantage of the subsisting party to which the individual belongs.Entrepreneurship education should be a suitable tool for sensitizing the overcompensate type of party membership at all cad res or recruitment. Subjects should therefore choose to belong to a political party with a genuine sense of awareness about his expectations not merely joining a band wagon. Subjects should have their energy released towards a vocation where their deep personnel values reside. The present phenomenon where party politics is seen as a balance to retire to where all other endeavours have failed or a place where quick wealth and fame can be realized can no longer prevail.D. Conclusion and RecommendationsAn entrepreneur is an owner of a business. Entrepreneurs are driven by the myths of greed, high risk taking, intuitive thinking and even sometimes dishonesty ( Pinchot, 2000) The business may be tangible for it to be observed by others. However, the sense of entrepreneurship may be at once dialectical and reside within the individual who only waits for any physical opportunity to realize his ownership dream. Entrepreneurship education should be a relevant tool to facilitate the ownersh ip drives among people in various vocations including party politics. In particular reference to political recruitment entrepreneurship education should help stimulate the right type of practitioners and hence secure the right quality of leaders needed especially for a ontogeny polity like Nigeria.Existing educational programmes should be philosophically tailored to meet the needs of subjects who are the future entrepreneurs in Nigeria. This would lead to the redirection of subjects perception of schooling as not merely a nub of securing paid jobs. 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