IN the early 1960s, after Nigeria became independent under the British colonialist, the Nigeria political system was a tangible manifestation of the nation’s virtuous democracy. The political apologies of this period, operating in the Nigerian political milieu, have been trying to command loyalties as devoted and committed as the passionate followings of modern sports’ franchises, and the pageantry of political experience is often as exuberant as joyful musical performance. So too is political language. Even into the beginning of the second republic in the year 1979, Nigerian political systems have been factored as corrupt factions, as conspiratorial combinations of ambitious interests, indeed as usurping forces. And yet if the Nigerian political system has begun a metamorphosis, its idiom does not, and that it does not is one of the critical elements of systemic disturbance.

Source: Nigerian Tribune August 02, 2024 00:07 UTC