Utomi
We are in an election year, or are we? Surely this is 2019. This is the year we go to the polls to hire new agents to steer the rudder down the path of our preferred collective well-being. But somehow, everyone, well, at least many people I know, seems numbed by the process. What are the issues facing us and how are those offering to save us from the darkness of now are planning to do so?
I admit that I can see effort on the part of some, in civil society, to bring some light, albeit a small beam, into “this present darkness”, as an American’s (Stephen Ellis) recent book on Nigeria is titled. But in the main, the effort to organize debates seems more like entertainment at Rome’s Colosseum than an ideas “beauty parade” from which choice of accountable agents are made.
Anyone looking in from outside sees a failed Democratic process and a failing state in which the citizens are spectators; angry, worried but seemingly immobilized and unsure how to engage. At…
