Okonjo-Iweala’s son, Uzodinma suggests Nigeria’s dissolution months to 2023 election



Beasts of No Nation writer, Uzodinma Iweala, has stated that Nigeria needs another independence and should be dissolved.

Uzodinma made the declaration in his article,’Nigeria’s Second Independence: Why the Giant of Africa Needs to Start Over’, published in Foreign Affairs.

The American magazine of international relations and United States foreign policy is published by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

Uzodinma’s call comes as Africa’s most populous nation prepares for the general elections scheduled for February and March 2023.

The author insists that one of the solutions to the political troubles of the country is its dissolution.

As citizens face serious security and economic problems, he urged them to decide if they want Nigeria’s existence as a state to continue or to expire.

“Nigeria’s political system defies neat packaging”, stressed the son of ex-Finance Minister and WTO DG Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

"Scholars have labeled it everything from the facetious “chaosocracy” to the more benign “entrepreneurial democracy” to the pejorative “kleptocracy.”

Uzodinma said such tags wrongly suggest that Nigeria’s problems stem from individual moral failings within the political class.

Citing experts’ recommendation of good leadership and good governance, the Harvard graduate believes no individual, however well intentioned, can fix the challenges.

“Nothing should be off-limits for discussion – even the dissolution of the country”, he suggested.

“Before doing anything else, Nigerians need to decide: Do they want the patchwork entity named Nigeria to remain Nigeria?

“It is a reasonable question, given that the country is the arbitrary product of colonial boundaries.”

Uzodinma said in their quest to form a working system, citizens should not “limit their thinking to outdated and flawed U.S. and European models of democracy”.

The novelist won the Hoopes Prize and Dorothy Hicks Lee Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis while in Harvard, among other honors.

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Lalasticlala Mynd44 OAM4J

The ones constantly sent to Benin Republic as refugees will rather stab the rest of the country in the back to cling to the faulty nation.

The same ones that watched as soldiers turned off street lights and desecrated the national flag with innocent blood at the toll gate under the command of a cocaine baron only to turn 180 degrees to chant his name as their hero/savior.

#OBIdience 2023

Facts!

The guy is right. We need to rebuild this country so that everyone benefit from it.

“Nigeria’s political system defies neat packaging”, stressed the son of ex-Finance Minister and WTO DG Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

"Scholars have labeled it everything from the facetious “chaosocracy” to the more benign “entrepreneurial democracy” to the pejorative “kleptocracy.”

I had wanted to wave off this opinion, but was jolted by the fact that some Nigerians (even some hopelessly poor youths) are here in Nairaland campaigning for kleptocrats angling to ruin the rest of their future.
I'd add LUNACY to the depiction of the situation.
It would be a grievous mistake to dismiss the opinion of a Harvard trained son of Ngozi Okonjo Iweala.
But thank God for Peter Obi. He may be Nigeria's last chance.