The Imperative for a Political Platform of Nigeria’s Working People(1)

For about three decades now, Nigeria had been in a deepening crisis for neo-colonialism on one hand and parasitism of the indigenous ruling class on the other. The neo-colonial aspect of it had entailed the continued dominance of foreign interest led by western capitalist forces and their international financial institution (the IMF and the World Bank) control from the metropolises of the trades” (USA, Europe and Japan). The triad had, of course, pound new centers arising from the so called globalization, now known as the BRICS (Brazil, Russian, Indian, China and South Africa) our indigenous ruling class in the said crisis is composed of various ethnics and conventional factions united by their primary pre- occupation with primitive accumulation.

 Understanding before going nexus is necessary for apprehending the character of Nigerian crisis in its current form. and in a way, all those who really want, or are able, to understand can see that the combination of the 2011 general election, the so called security crisis(especially those relating to ethno- nationality and religious anti parties and the violence arising from the conventional criminality such as robbery, kidnapping etc), economic violence visited on the masses of the people b y the Nigeria ruling class (such as increase in fuel crisis, the looting of public property euphemistically called privatization corruption etc,) is thoroughly grounded in this nexus.

To start with, the uniform post 2011 election response of the ruling circles in Nigeria at federal, state and local government levels to the issues of the minimum wage, the so called fuel subsidy and other element of Leo liberal economic prescription of the IMF and the world bank, confirm the 2011 general election as a ruling class fraud against the Nigeria people. It as be come clear to the Nigerian electorate especially after the fuel” subsidy” struggle, that they where conned to vote only on the basis of where candidates come from and stroke or which gods they claim to worship. On the key issue that unite Nigeria across tribal and religious lines, the ruling class parties at federal, state and local levels are united against the exploited. both organized labor and the so called civil society organizations got co-opted into INEC’s pursuit of equally dubious task of organizing credible free and fair election dominated by deep pocket and that did not bothered about what Nigerians were actually been asked to vote for

It was not surprising either, that before and after the 2011 elections, all sorts of foreign “visitors” (the real owner of Nigeria and intellections of Nigerians ruling class) came calling coaching government and their agencies on how to bring Nigeria to their needs. Specifically, ban-ki moon came with the prominent” shock doctor” (Jeffery sachs), EU people came, and Baroness Linda Shocker (one of the alter ego of British capital) and Tony Blair (of iraq) visited .to cap it all, IMFs Christian laggard (the IMF boss and ally of okonjo iweala’s erstwhile employer world bank) came. They all came to solidarise with their proxies in Nigeria, to coach them and, specifically, to endorse fuel “subsidy” removal and other ramified economic worst declared on the Nigeria masses. It was not surprising neither that international finance and cooperate vultures (such as the World Bank, gold man sachs and shell) have planted their formal employees in sensitive ministries of the Nigeria government and some of the wikileaks revelation have shown.

Precisely the 2011 general election (especially the presidential segment) were contested largely on ethic, religion and geo-political bases: the wind sown by Nigerian’s riling class produced copious post-election whirlwinds, deepening ethic and religion fissures, instigating greater religion anti-parties involve and fuelling their violence, and eliciting violence and indiscriminate police and military responses.

In the orgies of religion and ethic violence, the boko haram has occupies the center stage because of its scale of violence, its audacity and the spread of its reach. Its activities have consequently become handy for prosecuting existing division wars between the so-called south and the so-called north, between the Christians and the Muslims and between the Christian south and the Muslim north “- all of which have acquired definitions with dubious integrity but with incredible value in the hands of those who profit from, and manipulate the categories. The confessional categories are useful for ruling class hegemonies because they hide various equally important incendiary matters of intra-ethic violence, urban violence everywhere and anomic among the young and old.

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