[Lapalapa]

I have realized that, as Nigerians, we have an unparalleled knack for taking sides on issues we really know nothing about. I wonder whether Dr Babalola actually knows the philosophical basis of republicanism or liberalism. I'm not a supporter of gay marriage (I actually have too much testosterone to understand why a man would be attracted to another man when so many beautiful girls abound) and don't support abortion. However, to associate people's positions on those issues with specific political parties is simply to act like the unschooled woman who believed Obama was an Arab during a McCain rally! And for that to come from a "doctored" Nigerian is quite unfortunate.

Politics in western countries is about associating your opponent with issues that elicit negative vibrations from your electorate of interest. Or how do you explain a group calling itself pro-life, so that the opposite group is pro-death? But the same pro-life guy would not hesitate to drop a big bomb on any country to demonstrate America's military might even when he knows the bomb will most likely kill a lot of innocent people. I just hope nobody takes the gay/abortion debate to the pages of Nigerian newspapers; it doesn't belong there at all. Nigerians have more serious worries than gay marriage or abortion. As for our "doctors", they should simply go and commit themselves to doctoring our country back to normalcy instead of taking sides on issue about which they have no clue.