“The fourth cluster of propositions relates to the levels of responsibility and exercise of power or, in more familiar language, tiers of government. x“So, what will this type of restructuring – which we have called “popular-democratic restructuring” – look like when it has been constructed and set in motion? A short description for the structure I am proposing could be: A republican, secular and popular-democratic federal system under a collective presidency with rotational headship. Unstated here is how the Nigerian Left can use this structure to advance the struggle of the working, toiling and poor masses of Nigeria. Ethnic nationality fighters should expand their attention to a particular root cause of our current national calamity.

Source: The Guardian July 15, 2021 04:30 UTC