IGNORANCE, POLITICAL IRRELEVANCE AND THE PERSISTENT QUEST FOR RE-STRUCTURING THE NIGERIAN POLITY, 1999-2021
THE CALLS FOR RESTRUCTURING I chose to speak on the topic: Ignorance, political irrelevance and the persistent quest to re-structure the Nigerian polity, 1999-2021. I selected this topic because, I think my late friend would have been deeply agitated by what is being aired on many of the private radio and television stations and written as front pageheadlines in most of the private newspapers, especially in the last one year. Then the social media is choked up with all sorts of news, opinions and reports about the division of the people, in the country and its imminent collapse!! Sometimes, after reading these gloomy materials, you may even feel that the situation is so hopeless that when you go to bed, you may wake up in another country called, Biafra, Oodua or Arewa republic!! In fact, some foreign countries, like the USA have predicted the collapse of our country by 2015 and they still continue to think that we are a failed state on its way to the final crush!! However, we have