Who will answer Nigeria’s national question?
asks SAMUEL AKPOBOME OROVWUJE
Nigeria is once again entering the familiar theatre of political campaigns. Slogans will multiply, manifestos will be launched, rallies will fill public spaces, politicians will promise renewal, prosperity and transformation, and social media will become a battlefield of competing narratives. Yet beneath the excitement lies a more fundamental question: what happens to the Nigerian whose income can no longer keep pace with the cost of living?
This is the question that should define Nigeria’s political conversation.
The country cannot afford another election in which poverty, inflation, unemployment and insecurity are reduced to campaign slogans. Nigeria’s national question is no longer simply about who governs. It is about what kind of society political power is producing and whether economic growth is actually improving the lives of ordinary citizens.
