Opposition politics needs paradigm shift

A RADICAL paradigm shift is necessary to extricate opposition politics of this country from the doldrums of extinction and annihilation as the status quo is fraught with “own-goals” that gift the ruling party and “strategies” that monumentally fail to convince those sitting on the fence to wake up from the slumber of voter apathy.

As the opposition dithers and remains ensconced in its shells of quiescence and indecision, the little vociferous voices from the other section of the so-called opposition are busy lauding the ruling party, which in turn is reciprocating by parading defectors from the same hero-worshipping opposition in a classical dog-eat-dog scenario.

What is clear is that as long as the opposition politicians continue on this route of fragmentation, ideological bankruptcy, indecision, and intra-party and inter-party fighting, they are assured of one thing — they are galloping towards the precipice of oblivion and political quagmire and playing into the grand strategy of the ruling party.

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