Timely as always and I liked that you pointed out that Nigerians are politically engaged in all these various forms already the gap here is mobilising and organising all these efforts into a current or new political party.
Takeaway is that there’s actually work to be done. Painful multi-year work from ground up for much of it too.
It was a different society when the political movements that opposed colonialism and inherited Nigeria were forged. And they contained seeds of what is today’s rotten party system. That said, we need that level of the will to “take history by the horns”
Timely as always and I liked that you pointed out that Nigerians are politically engaged in all these various forms already the gap here is mobilising and organising all these efforts into a current or new political party.
As always, loved reading this and hopefully, Nigeria’s politics and engagement with it become elevated in my lifetime
Takeaway is that there’s actually work to be done. Painful multi-year work from ground up for much of it too.
It was a different society when the political movements that opposed colonialism and inherited Nigeria were forged. And they contained seeds of what is today’s rotten party system. That said, we need that level of the will to “take history by the horns”