VIEWPOINT IN BRIEF: The polity we need
By Uju Okeahialam
I delivered a lecture in 2015, to an Igbo Congress in Los Angeles, USA. At the congress, Nnamdi Kanu with a more forceful tone asked for the support for the Biafran cause. I felt his passion but I maintained my own sense of approach to the same problem.I was guided by the things I saw and learnt from my ministries in the Ilorin and Abuja areas of the middle belt Nigeria.
Discussing with a friend at the height of the Kanu’s suzerainty in 2017 I reminded him that it is unfortunate that the Kanu movement began without proper homework. He wanted to know what that meant, at which I asked him, who are the spiritual and intellectual leaders of this movement. I maintained that it is not enough to have young people shout aloud about something when they cannot present the issues philosophically, when enough bridges have not been…
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