"THE POLITICS OF STOMACH INFRASTRUCTURE IS WORLDWIDE"

The political phrase "Politics of Stomach Infrastructure" is rapidly evolving in the political dictionary of politics in Nigeria. This phrase was birthed recently after the just concluded governorship election in Ekiti State of Nigeria in which an incumbent governor of the state on the platform of the opposition party, the APC was heavily defeated in an election that still remains controversial in nature till today. Many Nigerians who are staunch supporters of the opposition APC claimed that the voters of Ekiti State chose the provider of the infrastructure of stomach over the builder of the physical infrastructure.

Amongst the most important basic needs of life for the immediate survival of mankind in any human society today, food, food and food is the number one most important daily need of a human being. The food security ranks on top everywhere, whether in the developed nations with the advanced form of democracy or in the developing nations that still practice a form of  pseudo-democracy. Elections are won and lost based on whether a politician makes the politics of stomach infrastructure his main priority or not on his To-Do-List if elected or reelected.

The practical meaning of the politics of infrastructure of stomach may vary worldwide and from place to place, but, it is similar and boils down to the same issue of food or the food security. In the western democracy, the infrastructure of  stomach is the creation of jobs that provide reliable incomes to a worker that guarantees daily food on his table . No western politician or public office seeker can win an election easily or be reelected back to power by directly putting the building of physical infrastructures above joblessness, the rising unemployment rate, falling standard of living, skyrocketing inflation and the cost of daily living as well as the rapidly growing poverty rate. 

In conclusion, the outcome of the Ekiti State gubernatorial election should serve as a good political lesson for the incumbent public office holders in Nigeria who desire a reelection or the future aspirants for the public offices in Nigeria. The politics of balancing the infrastructure of stomach with the physical infrastructural development must go hand-in-hand and side-by-side. The Nigerian public officials can no longer subject the poor electorates to hunger, joblessness, poverty wages, hopelessness, helplessness and a very bleak future, all in the name of modernization or the building of the 21st century modern infrastructural development #PoliticsOfStomachAlwaysWins.