USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: Two speeches, one by Tinubu, the other by Obasanjo

 The Nigerian Presidential Elections which are scheduled for the 25th February 2023 are approximately six months away - a long time in the cloak and dagger night and open daylight dramas, the secret and public politics, especially given the current political landscape and in/security situation that is dramatically unfolding before our eyes on a daily basis, and according to so much media coverage, holding the country hostage, part of what's so unenviably very special about Nigeria these days. ( It looks like the LGBT struggle will remain in second or third place, somewhere on the back burner, displaced by the more urgent necessity of putting in place the sort of government that will take all the problems and all important struggles by the horn. Conducting a peaceful, free, fair and transparent election is just one of the elementary problems that has to be overcome. Needless to say, before that date ( 25/2/202)  as the election campaigning gains momentum, many things are going to happen. Cash is going to flow just as Oil dey flow underground like-e river

 Some of the furore and fury that accompanied the announcement that Ruto had won - in spite of disagreements raised by four of the seven members of the electoral board,  has died down and is still ebbing away as Ruto goes about consolidating his power and promising that Kenya belongs to all ethnicities…

 These two videos were forwarded to me today by a Gambian friend. Such is his avid interest in what's going to happen when the sleeping giant wakes up. He would like an opinion - maybe even a fatwa from me, but of course, it will take a savvy Nigerian to make a qualified commentary on what these eminent Yoruba men are saying in these videos. The necessary background to my own understanding would be grounded on Auwal Musa Rafsanjani's communiques, Jibrin Ibrahim's timely essays, and all of ( for me) the King & Dean of all Nigerian commentators, the always succinct and insightful Professor Ayo Olukotun, all his previous dispatches on the state of the nation, right up to his latest musing on Professor Falola adumbrating the necessity of Nigerians at all school levels making themselves familiar with Nigerian history if indeed there's any truth to be put to the test regarding Runoko Rashidi's adage that "History is a light that illuminates the past, and a key that unlocks the door to the future." Professor Falola's advocacy is to be expected - after all the History professor has been professing in Texas  - that's his day-to-day background  - and all Americans are supposed to know their history ( here's some)... hmmm Brer Soyinka will soon be professing in Abu Dhabi

Gone are the days when schoolboys in Senegal cut their teeth on history books that began, " Our ancestors were Gauls" and around that time in Sierra Leone secondary schools, in Form One,  history lessons began with either 1066 or The Wars of the Roses and ended in Upper Six with the British Empire under Queen Victoria.

More contemporary Nigerian history is being recorded here:

Without Me, Buhari Wouldn't Have Become President – Tinubu (1,966,428 views,  from 3 Jun 2022, 2023 Elections: Wrong Choice Will Consume Nigeria - Obasanjo (443,230 views, from 11 Aug 2022) 

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