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A Few of Nigeria’s Suggested More Balanced and Higher-Integrity Political Personalities

02 Saturday Feb 2019

Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, Africa, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, International Development, Islamic Small Wars, Nigeria, Politics, Regions

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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has come under intense scrutiny for suspending his country’s Chief Justice just weeks before a general election, a move that critics have attacked as tyrannical and unconstitutional.

Buhari defended his decision on Twitter, saying corruption allegations against Chief Justice Walter Onnoghen — who has been accused of failing to disclose bank accounts in foreign currencies — are “grievous.”
But the move was labelled a “coup against democracy” by the President of the Nigerian Senate, and prompted an outcry from the country’s major opposition party, which halted its presidential election campaign temporarily in protest.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/26/africa/buhari-nigeria-judge-elections-intl/index.html

And so Nigeria’s lawyers staged a two-day strike against President Buhari’s thoroughly autocratic judgment, decision, and exercise of seemingly unquestionable power.

In addition to the latest imbroglio involving Nigeria’s chief justice, a matter not overlooked by the U.S. State Department, Buhari has been accused of permitting Fulani gang raids against Christian farming villages (whose firearms have been confiscated in advance by the state — in Nigeria, urban thugs may own arms illegally — who’s to know? — while farmers are made to provide easy targets for burn-and-shoot raiders armed with AK-47s and gasoline) and of packing his highest-level security offices with Muslims, and so in essence channeling power and wealth to the Muslim community while slowly displacing Christian power.

BackChannels asked its Nigerian source for suggestion as to who would make a better — more balanced, higher integrity — politician, now or in the future, for Nigeria’s leadership. The names returned were Fela Durotoye, Jimi Agbaje, Kingsley Moghalu, and Oby Ezekwasili. The Nobel Prize-winning writer Wole Soyinka was mentioned as well, but BackChannels suggested he may well remain Nigeria’s soul in letters and perhaps the natoin’s most influential intellectual. With context, here is what Soyinka had to say (in the Daily Nation) about this month’s Nigerian Presidential Elections (February 16):

Mr Buhari, 76, came to power in 2015 and is seeking a second term in the February 16 vote. His main challenger is 72-year-old Atiku Abubakar, a former vice president.

“For the avoidance of doubt, let me make my position quite clear because I don’t want any ambiguity; I, Wole Soyinka, will not be voting for either,” he was quoted in local media as saying on Thursday at a forum in Lagos.

https://www.nation.co.ke/news/africa/Wole-Soyinka-asks-Nigerians-to-reject-Buhari/1066-4961610-bmjkxhz/index.html – Daily Nation, February 1, 2019.

Herewith some starting reference to good-for-Nigeria political personalities as mentioned by BackChannel’s source. The bolded names have been linked to their respective Wikipedia pages; tweets, news, and news headers remain recent; note: Oby Ezekwasili has dropped out of the Presidential race to help swing her fan base vote to a candidate better positioned, perhaps, to beat the incumbent President Buhari; Omoyele Sowore, not mentioned in casual conversation, has been added by BackChannels for showing up fast on this subject — Nigeria’s upcoming elections — on the web.


Fela Durotoye

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/feladurotoye/

Posted to YT January 3, 2019.

Jimi Agbaje

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jimiagbaje

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialJimiAgbaje/

In a 2013 interview with The Punch Newspaper, Agbaje talked about how he began in politics: “It had to do with the Moshood Abiola/Bashir Tofa presidential election”, he said. “I saw the annulment as a personal insult and an assault on the Nigerian people. This led to my first entry into what I would call activism, working with other concerned professionals” such as Prof. Pat Utomi, Dr Ayo Ighodaro, Asue Ighodalo, Billy Lawson, Oby Ezekwesili, Tola Mobolurin and Hassan Odukale.[8][9] Jimi was in one form of resistance group or the other which ultimately led him to join the socio-political organization, Afenifere where he served as national treasurer.[10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Agbaje

Thugs Attack Jimi Agbaje’s Campaign Convoy In Lagos

The campaign convoy was on its way out of the palace, when the hoodlums, numbering about 40, chased and threw stones at Agbajeโ€™s vehicles.


There were minor injuries involving shattered vehicle window glass, and tear gas was used to disperse the mob according to the above piece published yesterday in Sahara Reporters. How the hoodlums were organized and by whom? That would be something to know and report. For the time being, the news tells of the tone of elections in a wealthy oil producing nation sadly rife with corruption.


Kingsley Moghalu

https://kingsleycmoghalu.com/

The Young Progressives Party is making a lot of impact in the North and has gained wide acceptance. We where thrilled to see the liberation on People's faces at the ward rally at Dan Agundi Ward, one among the B wards of Kano Municipal Federal Constituency. pic.twitter.com/r5mYthgzjm

— Kingsley Moghalu (@MoghaluKingsley) February 2, 2019

Oby Ezekwesili

Former Candidate’s Profile and Record

Hahaha @Political learner @Oukwuani . Make sure to follow my WPC on Monday to know what kind of Learning I rejected. Glad that great Vision of yours is impacting the world. Keep soaring on๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ™๐Ÿพ https://t.co/KGcc1tDeTq

— Oby Ezekwesili (@obyezeks) February 2, 2019

Omoyele Sowore

Is spicy Omoyele Sowore the "deviant" Nigeria needs? – African Arguments https://t.co/uh02bWE0Fq

— Omoyele Sowore (@YeleSowore) February 1, 2019

Posted to YT January 31, 2019.


BackChannels has referred here and there to corruption as the cancer of states. Where the Transnational Crime Organizations are strongest and bribes to the powerful would seem to be working, the money gets laundered and into the topside economy, which essentially may make the public unwittingly dependent on a growing criminal sector. Around the world, for better or worse because it’s just a fact of life at this point, public money that may be quietly, surreptitiously pried into private pockets would seem to be moved away from public community development and other services. The only way to get the brakes on nefarious processes — organized crime, embezzlement, and skimming — is to bring to power more modern politicians and their better associates in military and paramilitary services.

That’s it.

In one direction, the state sinks, and the end — or political hell — will look something like Venezuela at this hour, i.e., broken, starving, beneath common dignity and freedom; and in the better direction, the state grows a healthy economy, ordered and with funds available for all ordinary operations and the most helpful of public and social services. One may hope for Nigeria that the personalities who would be most ambitious and competent on the public’s behalf will rise to their occasions and prevail over the unerringly corrupt, nepotistic, and toadying of the breed.

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