"This is the beginning of a revolution and the move by the people to rid the country of corrupt elements, even though the leaders are scared of using the word "revolution."
………………Professor Ben Nwabueze
(at the 19th January street protests in Lagos)
"Iam afraid - and you know i am an army General. When a General says he is afraid, that means the danger ahead is real and potent. The danger posed by an army of unemployed youth in Nigeria can only be imagined. There is absence of serious, concrete, realistic, short and long term solution to youth unemployment. Nigerian youths have been patient enough. This patience will soon reach its elastic limit. Nigeria will witness a revolution soon unless government takes urgent steps to check growing youth unemployment and poverty".
………………General Olusegun Obasanjo
(July 27, 2012)
The fearful and self-preserving criers today are the same daft mariners who marooned the ship of Nigerian state, who surely now deserve no hearing on their mere echoes of long stated theoretical consequences by better educated citizens.
The only thing un-known of the boggy grounds in Nigeria today is the eventual outcome, but there can be no question that Nigeria is in the grips of revolutionary pressures. The legitimacy of the State lately fell into doubt as mindless thefts got pestilential and those hard done by deployed violence in reaction.
The Nigerian revolution has already started. Those awaiting or doubting the likelihood of a Nigerian revolution are delusively living right inside a revolution but claiming to be looking for one, because they mistake the final putsch against the State; rather than its withering away, as the "revolution" itself. Their mis-understanding of the term "revolution" likely results from America's staid social science syllabus – which is either decidedly mute on or otherwise avidly opposed to Marxian dependency theory and its revolutionary conception of State.
Seyi Awofeso
27 December 2012
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