[center]Nigerian Youths Renaissance Movement.[/center]
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Whereas we know, we can effect more changes as a group;
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[li] Whereas we are ashamed that as Africans, we have not been able to partake enough in the development processes going on in our world;
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o Few of the innovations and inventions of the 20th and 21st century can be attributed to our countries. Of course, we know that our people who left the shores of Africa has turned to instance geniuses on leaving the Fatherland – exposing the fundamental cause of the dearth of inventions in our land to be the socio-political conditions at home;
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o At a time when the people of the world are going to the space, we are still burdened with our inability to feed and house our teeming population. Our farmers still till the grounds with crude hoes and cutlasses; our farm produce we have proved incapable of extracting or processing for better use. The uncountable variety of produce coming from our farms, the numerous fruits and vegetables we have allowed to rot;
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o We have allowed our people to continuously wallow in hunger; ignorance and disease as a result of unfocused, incapable and un-intelligent leadership who lacks the basic ideas of wealth creation; who has failed to protect our economy and reserve jobs for our teaming population;
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 Whereas we will cause a change in the socio-political conditions in Nigeria, we are set to put a stop to the human rot in our fatherland through positive actions and civil activism;
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o By first agreeing on a common position among us the youths;
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o Through well-coordinated efforts channeled toward educating and informing our masses (students, farmers,
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o Through issuance of well-articulated press releases and press conferences;
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o Through public communiques,
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o Through rallies and seminars organised among our youth and the masses of our country.
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o By our program, we shall encourage every of our member and other Nigerians to acts in manners that will
protect our national interest, the sovereignty of our country and the general good of our people.
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o By throwing the weight of our movement in support of all the oppressed masses of our country. We shall explore all legal avenues to protects the rights and privileges of every Nigerian, wherever and whenever they are tramped upon.
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o Through supports to political office aspirants of proven good standing who share our belief and commitment to our nation's interest and the general good of all our people.
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o Through carefully planned dialogue with those in powers when necessary.
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o And as a tool of last resort, through peaceful protest, organized sit-at-home strike actions and civil disobedience, in alliance with the labour unions and all trade associations, effectively reclaim the rights and privileges due to our people.
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 Whereas we have realised that some of us must rise beyond the cynicisms, indifferences and prejudices of today, to give our people leadership;
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o We must awaken our people and lead them through the right path; we swore to make every necessary
sacrifice in this regard with the hope of being the celebrated and uncelebrated heroes of the new Nigeria that beckons.
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 Whereas we know that true heroes demand more than opportunism and sycophancy;
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o We have resolved to be the Sacrificial Lamb for our nation and our race, we have chosen to bear the brunt of the sacrifices needed to reawaken the sleeping giant called Nigeria, and give our people good life.
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 Whereas we have decided to be the torch-bearers of a new era of truth, equity, justice, freedom, good governance and patriotism to our fatherland;
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 Whereas we want to finish up the liberation struggle as started by Azikiwe, Awolowo, Saduana and Balewa, and many other known and unknown names who achieved our nation's Independence 50 years ago;
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 Whereas we want to answer the call by our God to cultivate our world – to make our world (our country) a better place; and hence contribute our proud quota to the development processes embarked upon by all the good people of our world.
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 Whereas we want to change the course of the Nigerian story and that of Africa – the fate of the Blackman; and to establish beyond every ground that Blackman is equal in all respect with all the good people from other races in the world.

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We enjoin all our youths of good conscious to join us to enforce the good life and responsible government that our people deserve; by becoming equal founders and joiners of the Nigerian Youths Renaissance Movement.

Drop a line of text to nigeriayouthsrenaissance@gmail.com containing your name, address, email_address, phone number, field of specialisation and the membership type of your choice. You can as well email a statement of purpose and your expectation from the movement including any personal suggestion.
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[center]Interim Convener:
Godwin Ndubuisi Wilfred Aleke (Comrade)
godwin.aleke@gmail.com
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[center][b]Goals of the Organisation[/b][/center]

A total liberation of Fatherland from socio-political backwardness.

We stand for good governance and best conducts in our national life. We are calling both our government and our people to order; we must stop the human waste going on across our land.

Our politics and government must change to reflect transparent governance. Our government must be accountable to the people of Nigeria at all times and must work for our general good. Our government must rise to plan and protect the economic well-being of all Nigeria at all times.

Our story must change to that of a focused group of people working to uplift the life of its people. Our lives must change to reflect discipline. Corruption must be tackled in our private and public lives. Our public institutions must be accountable to us; they must wake up to their responsibilities of serving us.

We will achieve this, by coalescing our individual efforts to educate our members and other Nigerians on better ways to organize our public institutions, by standing for the interest of the silent majority in our land, by supporting the cause of justice and freedom in our country through positive interventions in selected socio-political areas and events.

Through mass sensitization of the goals of the movement, through credible conduct of our activities, we hope to win the hearts of well-meaning Nigerians. We will carry through a campaign for a total overhaul of our institutions of governance to ensure a better life for our people.

Our task is that of a second national movement after that of Azikiwe, Awolowo,  Saduana and Belawa. Our desire is
to give a full meaning to our nation's Independence as won by our heroes past; and ensure a good life for all Nigerians.

We stand to defend and protect the well-being of every Nigerian.

[center]Membership Structure and responsibilities.[/center]

The movement is a common platform through which we will collectively pursue the goals we have set before ourselves. The membership is structured in such a way that will enable us stand the test of time. We are building resilience into the movement to save it from the defects that have affected other organisations before us. Also knowing the gravity of the challenges before us and the struggles we are to engage in, we must build the foundations and structure of our movement to be able to carry us through.

To constantly give us direction and ensure the purity of our purpose as we move along our chosen struggle, we must build a committee of select committed intelligentsias who will form the innermost core of our movement. The need to accommodate every of our people and evade the common pitfall of tribalism that have stopped us in the past from building a nationwide acceptable movement, we will make provision for people from each of the political zone in the country. We will hold the members in honour and expect them to act honourably at all times. To us, they will be the spiritual leaders of our struggle. They will be at the forefront of our struggle. Because, we are entrusting the fate of the movement and that of our people that we have chosen to fight for on them; we call their position the CONCLAVE.

Also, we want to save our think tank from the distracting task of administering the movement. Theirs is to lead the struggle from intellectual and spiritual point of view. We appoint immediately after the Conclave, some members as EXECUTIVE to deal with the day to day administration of our movement.

We will build an army of activists who shall drive our struggle with the Conclave and Executive members, and call them the FIELD members.

We must also keep a group of those that share same concern with us as LOYAL members. They will help in taking our messages to the general public; they will also form a bank of advisers to the Conclave, Executive and the Field members who have chosen to volunteer for activists of our movement.

We will build a platform to accommodate those of us that may not be opportune to associate with the Movement in the open; those who will prefer to keep their commitment to our movement secret for some reasons, as[b] PATRON[/b] and ANONYMOUS Members.

With these, we have a structure that can accommodate all of us, that can navigate the challenging task ahead.
1. Conclave
This group will comprise twelve members in all, with two members selected from each geo-political zone of the country. Members will be appointed from the Field members based on merit; and must be individual who has never held any political office in the past. Such individuals must have proven track record of having worked for public good without any dent of corruption or suspicion of being corrupt.

They also must be sound thinkers who have proven guts to stand against injustices; people with the right mentality and doggedness to withstand untoward pressure against the set aims of our movement.
The body will form the intellectual engine room of the movement. Their status is that of spiritual leaders and think tank team. It will be the highest decision making body of our movement exclusive of funds managements. The members will at chosen intervals articulate the position the movement on socio-political issues as they arise in the nation.

They will guide and protect the general goals of our movement. They will also determine the operational modes to be adopted from toward achieving our ultimate aim of uplifting the lives of all Nigerians; in consultation with our members, taking cognisance of the demands of our general society and the demands of the political realities of the day and the futuristic goal of our movement.

They will direct the Executive and also ensure that the identity of our Patrons remains anonymous. 
Each member of the Conclave must be an authority in liberation struggle; a sound political scholar of repute who is truly Nigerian by with both of his/her parents being Nigerians by birth; while he/she posses no foreign country's passport. They must be seen  to have a deep stake in Nigerian project.

2. Executive

As in every organisation, the Executive members who will be elected once in every six years will coordinate the day-to-day activities of the movement along the principles articulated and set by the Conclave. They will set modalities for the coordination of the activities of all our members outside the Conclave members and the Patron members.

The Executive members cannot interact with the Patron members; they can only received donations from Patron members as transmitted to them from the Conclave. This is to ensure that our patrons remain anonymous. They also may solicit for funds from other members of the association as the needs arise, but such funds must be purely voluntary.

The Executive is to plan and coordinate the activities of the movement; in particular, the modes of operations of the Field Members.

An Interim Executive to pilot the affairs of the movement pending the inauguration date will be elected by a poll that will be conducted online From the Field Members sometimes in the very near future

3. Field Members

This will comprise the body of activist made up of willing members of the organization. Members will be encouraged to join as field members when they are disposed. The activities of the field members will be coordinated by a standing committee of the Executive. These members will anchor the rallies, lectures, conferences and peaceful demonstrations as the needs arise. They will be supported by the Executive and the concave members.

They also will share the task of fighting for and on behalf of all under-privileged Nigerians with the Conclave and Executive members when the need arises. In particular, Field members who are qualified medical personnel may be called upon to offer free medical services to under-privileged Nigerians; whereas also qualified lawyers will offer free legal services when the need arises. The web gurus will be expected to pick up the enlightenment campaign on the internet while those with access to the media will lead the media campaign.

Other Field members shall be required to offer free services as their specialisation and experience permits. In this manner, we will anchor ourselves in areas we can make voluntary inputs with minimal cost. The movement shall make payments for these services to the best of its ability.

The day-to-day activism as deemed by the Executive committee will be coordinated by the Field members. Aside the Conclave and Executive committee, the Field members will constitute the real engine room of the movement. Members will be demanded to fully engage themselves in the operational activities of our movement.

If you desire to join as a Field member: Drop a line of text to [color=#000099]nigeriayouthsrenaissance@gmail.com[/color] containing your name, address, email_address, phone number, field of specialisation and Field member as membership choice. You can as well email a statement of purpose and your expectation from the movement including any personal suggestion.

Aspiring members of Conclave whose parents must be Nigerians by birth and who must accept the responsibility of first being Field member are expected to give a full narration of their past, including past working experiences with positions held, record of past activism, a short essay on their plan for Nigeria for the next twenty years and how it can best be actualized.

Such members are also expected not to share citizenship or posses passport of any other country outside Nigeria.

4. Loyal members

These will comprise committed Nigerians who are in support of the organization's goal, but not disposed to be actively involved in the activism owing to some reasons. Though, they are not expected to be actively involved in the activities of the organization, they are sympathetic members of the organization who are willing to support morally or financially without exposing themselves to the challenges that might arise from activism/struggle.

They will serve as reserve bank of future activist (Field Members), who will covert when conditions permit them. Also, as people that share the principles of the movement, their contributions and advises on better ways to advance our goals and that of our nation. Their moral and financial support will also be welcome; as they will be expected to play reasonable part in spreading the message of our movement.

If you want to join as a Loyal member: Drop a line of text to[b] nigeriayouthsrenaissance@gmail.com [/b]containing your name, address, email_address, phone number and Loyal member as membership choice. You can as well email a statement of purpose and your expectation from the movement including any personal suggestion.

5. Patron member
These are members of the organization whose membership will never be made public under any circumstance. The name and commitment of a Patron member to the organization can only be known to a single member of the Conclave whom he chose to trust. There must not be any documentation of the names and contact details of a Patron member to safeguard them from possible harassment from any corner.

With this, the movement will accommodate our numerous supporters who are beneficiary of the government of the day, but wants a change in the ways our land is governed. We know the grave loss that can happen to people’s lives and businesses when government moves against them; and hope to protect the private details of our supporters who select to be patron members with this arrangement.

Whereas there are, Nigerians who want to support us financially as patrons members, any willing Nigerian can select to be a patron member; those without financial muscle to support us financially and also afraid of any negative impact of being a public member of the organization can choose to be Anonymous members.

If you are a Nigerian and desire to join us as a Patron member: Drop a line of text to nigeriayouthsrenaissance@gmail.com containing your email_address and/or phone number for a follow up call. You can as well email a statement of purpose and your expectation from the movement including any personal suggestion.

6. Anonymous Members

For same security reasons, members can choose to be anonymous members only to be uniquely identified by a membercode to be chosen by the individual members. The members will be identified with such codes only and no documentation of their real identities will be kept. Anonymous members can only be communicated to by their membercode and emails addresses and/or phone numbers of their choice.

Their donations to the association must also come anonymously, only to be tied to their membercode.
If you are a Nigerian and desire to join us as an Anonymous member: Drop a line of text to nigeriayouthsrenaissance@gmail.com containing your choice membercode, email_address, phone number and anonymous member as membership choice. You can as well email a statement of purpose and your expectation from the movement including any personal suggestion.

[center]FINANCIAL OBLIGATION[/center]
Whereas the movement may solicit for financial support from its member and from other organizations, any levies shall be strictly voluntary. The movement welcomes willing non-financial members since our goal is to win the hearts of all Nigerians for the good of our country, and not to raise money.

Whatever funding the movement choose to embark on, must be purely voluntary. We know that where there is a will, there will always be way. Our concern is the will of our people.

Also, our members, especially Conclave, Executive and Field members are expected to give all their efforts voluntarily except in cases where the movement can afford to bear part of the cost, but the key message is that membership of our movement is voluntary and commitments are purely based on voluntary contributions.

[center]MODES OF OPERATION[/center]

The organization shall reach out to its members through emails, text messages and internet blogs. We shall organize seminars and rallies, issue press releases and press conferences, issue public communiqué, organize public debates and take positions in socio-political issues for the good of our country.

We shall also organize campus outreach, market place outreach programmes and motor park campaigns both to sensitize Nigerians, and to articulate a common position among the Nigerian Youths and the Nigerian masses. Our aim is to go beyond the manipulations of the powerful individuals in our midst to get the voice of our youths and people heard.

Our goal is to moblise the masses of Nigeria for our general good. We shall stand with the Nigerian masses at all times, by fighting for and on their behalf against any oppressor – whether individuals, other organizations or the government of the day. Our movement must be a champion of our people's interest. For our goal to be achieved, our masses must see us as the hope of the common man on the street. Our strategy is to be seen as the voice of the people of our nation.

To achieve this, our army of lawyers will be used to institute legal cases in defence of the masses of our country whenever and wherever the need arises, our medical personal members shall be mobilised to give free medical services to the masses of our people, our internet team must be online twenty four hours to rightly spread our message and inform our people rightly, our members in the press are expected to expose the lies of the government of the day and also spread our message of hope. All other Field members will be mobilised with the members of the Executive and the Conclave to acts in defence of the the under-privileged as the situation demands when the need arises.

Our approach is to through selective intervention in the affairs of the masses of our country in order to relieve their hardship, win their hearts for the final struggle against bad governance. We shall through such selective interventions, compel our government to surrender to the ultimate will of our people because we will take legal action where they act in breach of the people's will and our law; and where appropriate institute civil disobedience in accordance with the laws of our land and international laws of justice.

[center]MOBILISATION CAMPAIGN[/center]

Our membership drive will take off from email and email group communications, through which we hope to secure reasonable membership.

The second phase will be the registration of the organization and other formal documentation that may be necessary. This will include a release of our constitution and manifesto.

This will be followed with the selection of the members of the Conclave, the election of the members of the Executive and a formal inauguration.

A crucial step will be the outreach programme that will include visits to campuses, market places and motor parks. We will reach out to the leadership of the traders association including that of the trade unions. We will also seek an alliance with the labour union in the country. Along this line, we can reach other to Nigerians of better standings including public office holders who are willing to join us as Patron members.

We are aware that some of them seriously want change in our country but cannot act in the open because of their political interest. In particular, we know that most of them because of their dirty past cannot afford to challenge the government of the day in the open. We know they have perfected the anti corruption agencies in our land as a tool to silence the few office holders in our land that want to stand on the side of the people. We are providing the organization as a tool for them to help cause change in our country without exposing themselves to harm. With these, all of us can work for the change that we all desire in our country with minimal harm.

The members of the Executive will seek for areas to intervene across the length and bread of the country, as events unfold in our land, in order to protect the rights and privileges of all Nigerians. Through such selective interventions, we will direct both our people and the government towards the right path. The weight of our movement will be harnessed to achieve these. Our approach is purely that of peaceful means that will abhor any violence and confrontation, without being timid.

We believe that violence is acts of cowardice; and will seek to eschew violence in all our actions. We will through dialogue, legal court processes, rallies, conferences, public communiques, and in the last resort, sit-at-home strike, peaceful protest and civil disobedience achieve the change that we desire in our country.

[center]THE FACTS BEHIND OUR FOMATION OF THE YOUTHS RENIASSANCE MOVEMENT[/center]

We are fighting to safeguard the existence and reproduction of our people; the sustenance of our race and the purity of our value system. We seek,  the freedom of our people and full Independence of our fatherland; so that our people can mature to the fulfillment of the mission allotted to us by the creator of the universe.

Every thought; every idea, every doctrine and all our endeavour must serve this purpose. Every action must be examined from this point of view; and used or rejected according to the extent it affects this goal. With these, our movement; our approach will never exhibit dead doctrine since it is the well being of our people alone that all things must serve.

1. As we embark on this nation's discovery journey, we must note that all reforms in the beginning, posses but a few champions yet many million supporters. Their aim have often been for centuries, the inner longing of hundreds of thousands of people which never come into being until few people stand up to proclaim such a general will; and as a standard-bearer guides the old longing to victory in the form of new idea – hence the attainment of the general good, once the necessary follow-up work is done.

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 This failure expresses itself in thousand fold manifestations:
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4. Multiple chronic and aging spinsters and bachelors among us that could not afford to marry as a consequence of harsh economic conditions.
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5. Multiple accidents and deaths on our failing roads and other infrastructures.
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6. Trooping to both serious and un-serious churches and healing homes in search of miracles; a consequence of people without hope.
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7. Multiple stress related deaths and sicknesses that has become rampant today in our land
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 The renaissance movement must therefore firstly appeal to these suffering and abused people. It must not constitute an organisation for the contented and satisfied, but must be able to embrace all those tormented by suffering.
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2. In purely political terms, the picture before us today presents a people turn into two parts.
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 The second class, the broad masses of the labouring population where majority of us belong. We are organised in more or less western democratic philosophy world view and determined to oppose all views contrary to this. We desire to be national but unconsciously rejects the promotion of our national interest; just as conversely we aid and abets foreign domination; because we have been indoctrinated to see every part of us as inferior to foreign. We are numerically the stronger; and above all, comprises all those elements of the nation without which a national resurrection is unthinkable and impossible. We represent the true power base because we are by far numerically stronger, yet we bear the brunt of the suffering in the land, but lacks the foresight and will to act to change the conditions. To console ourselves out of our self-pity, we rely on a comparison with fellow suffering masses but fail to demand the good life that is duly ours.
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 The mental state of our broad masses is a consequence of events that transversed five centuries: The 16th century conquering and forced exploration of our lands by the European lords; slavery and the destruction of our them emerging cities; colonisation which further dehumanised us and mentally rendered us an inferior people; arranged Independence which ensured power was handed over to the hands the European could trust who are amenable to their interest, but not ours; constant interference in our governance and the activities of the under-world spy network of the super powers who ensure our leadership remain in the hands of people amenable to foreign interest.
 In all these, we see an impossibility in repossessing our true capabilities  to dictate the direction that our nation and our lives go. We are confused into surrendering as inferior weaklings that cannot change the course of our lives. We fall back on a survivalist instincts of cutting corners, lies, manipulations and other acts of corruption in order to exist.
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 The energies of the natural instinct of self-preservation – the will for self-preservation is what is required.

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 When this spirit dominates a people; the spirit will finds a thousand ways every one of which ends in invention and innovativeness. Because we know that if a coward is given ten pistols; he will not be able to fire a single shot when attacked. So for a coward, the pistols are more worthless than a knotted stick by a courageous man.
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4. The question of regaining our people's political power or reshaping the destiny of our nation and enhancing the lives of our people is primarily a question of recovering our national instinct of self-preservation. These instincts have been very much debased and destroyed centuries ago as a result of what the whole of African continent passed through over the ages.
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 Also from the purely military angle, every officer, above all, will realise after a moment's thought that a struggle cannot be carried on with academic battalions, that in addition to the brains of a people, their fists are also needed. The masses will provide the fist with which the struggle will be fought. The moving train must be ready and willing to accommodate all for the aims to be attained. Every man, every effort every willing hand is required.
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7. The international western democratic philosophy of life has become unconquerable in our present world and can hardly be combated and torn out of the hearts and brains of our broad masses. What is required is to articulate our national interest within the bounds of this all-dominating western democratic philosophy.

8. Since the favourable solution of the people's future require a national attitude on the part of the broad masses of our people, this must be the highest, mightiest task of a movement whose activity is not intended to exhaust itself in the satisfactory of being just a national organisation, but which must examine all its commissions and omissions solely with a view to their consequential effects on the goal.
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 As its highest aim, the renaissance movement must first accomplish the nationalisation of the masses – galvanising the thought processes of our masses for a common good.
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 From a tactical standpoint, a number of demands result from this
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I. To win the masses, no social sacrifice is too great; both from our movement as a body and from every committed and serious member.
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II. The natural education of the broad masses can only take place indirectly through a social uplift. Our movement must as an immediate priority embark on programmes to inform, empower and win over the hearts of the masses of our country and by so doing   nationalise them.
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III. This nationalisation of the broad masses can never be achieved by half-measures or by weak emphasis on a so called objective standpoint, but only by a ruthless and fanatically one-sided orientation towards our national goal – our liberation and our common good. The fanaticism toward our nation and its interest must approach the levels of the organised religion for the greatest impact to be made.
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IV. The soul of our people can only be won, if along with carrying a positive struggle for the movement's goal and our people's well being, we destroy the opponents of our struggle. The people at all times must see their own right in our struggles and ruthless attack on the opponents of our struggle (all agents of bad governance and irresponsible behaviour in our national life) who must become a common foe. To the masses, renouncing the destruction of our   enemy seems unthinkable. The broad masses are only a piece of nature and their sentiments does not understand the mutual handshake of people who claim that they want the opposite thing. They can only follow the activities of the movement and must be guided and motivated rightly at all times. The reverse of our struggle must at all times be painted a common enemy to the masses in black and white.
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V. Our movement therefore, must do everything on behalf of the masses without immediate gain. The masses must be the only beneficiary of our task with or without appreciation. On the long run, their hearts will be won over, at which point they must have been nationalised and the powers they possess utilized to effect the change we all desire.
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VI. All great questions of the day are questions of the moments and represents only consequences of definite causes. The masses can hardly be rational. All activities must be clearly of immediate benefits to them; while our sacrifices as a movement will be for  our nation's tomorrow. Our movement, and each of us must be the intelligent Sacrificial Lamb who is out to midwife the birth of our new Nigeria.
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VII. Organising the broad masses of our people which are today in the international camp into a national people's community does not mean renouncing the defence of justified class interests. Divergent class and professional interests are not synonymous with class cleavages, but are natural consequences of economic life. Professional group is in no way opposed to a true national community, for the latter consists in the unity of a nation only in all those questions which affects the interest of the nation.
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VIII. The integration of  an occupational group which has become a class with the national community or merely with the state is not accomplished by the lowering of the higher class but by uplifting the lower class. This process itself can never be upheld by the higher class, but only by the lower class fighting for its equal right. So our aim is to constantly liberate the lower classes.
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IX. Our people will not be raised to the framework of the national community via feeble scenes of fraternisation but by a conscious raising of our social and cultural situation until the most serious differences may be viewed as bridges.
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X. The goal of our renaissance movement will never be reached by enlightenment work or by influencing ruling circles, but only by the achievement of political power by persons that posses the renaissance creed who share our deep commitment to our nation's good.
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XI. Every world-moving idea has not only the right but also the duty of securing those means which make possible the execution of its ideas. We have the duty to ensure the implementation of what we believe in by exercising the right influence on the masses, the governed and the leadership.
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