Published 29 January 2022

The Anambra State Governor-Elect, Chukwuma Soludo, has noted that fixing politics in Nigeria requires new developmental organisations.

Soludo was speaking at the 2021 Pioneer Class Graduation Ceremony of the School of Politics, Policy and Governance in Abuja on Saturday with the theme: ” Emergence of the Unconventionals”.

He charged the graduates to be ready to show honesty and their knowledge to have a new Nigeria, to create the change that would lead to having a new Nigeria.

The former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria said, “Fixing politics requires talents and skills. But these won’t be enough. It won’t happen by lone wolves working in silos.

“It requires new developmental organisations – organisations/teams of believers, driven by defined ideology, purpose and character.

“Let’s be clear about one point: Nigeria does not lack a well educated/skilled and widely-travelled stock of human capital to drive its development.

“A key missing link is purpose-driven cohesion and organisation for transformation of the homeland.”

He further called for a new liberation movement in Africa and Nigeria as a country, that would promote the selfless service of political leaders.

Soludo said that the liberation struggle for independent Africa was driven by a nationalist ideology anchored by a developmental state.

He said, “There is almost a sense of nostalgia, recalling the mission and accomplishments of our founding fathers, especially as we contemplate the world without oil.

“Much of the existing social order is founded on competition for, and distribution of rents, oil and the easy money that came with it destroyed the social fabric and the elite created new institutions and political structures to maximise their gains.

“As the noose tightened globally on other rentier/criminal enterprises such as drug trafficking or internet scamming, many of the barons flocked into politics as the next easy alternative.

“Politics has become big business. Appointment or election into public office is seen largely as an opportunity to ‘eat’ rather than a call to selfless service.”

Soludo added that a classic feature of the political environment is that corruption has become part of the “culture”, with little incentive for honesty.

He said that honesty has been scorned as wickedness, foolishness or mere pretence, saying that those who dare to be different have a steep price to pay.

In her remark, Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili, Founder of SPPG, lamented the way politics in Africa is being run, saying it had distorted the society.

Ezekwesili charged the graduates to embrace leadership skills that would transform the society. Leaders take the pain so that others can enjoy it.

“The society must be contested for and you should pioneer the space for that leadership,” she said.

She said that the school would be replicated in another six African countries as a way of liberating Africa out of extractive colonialism.

talk2maurice:
Not APC and PDP recycling the same corrupt men.

Hamzashaf99:
Fixing Nigeria's problem...requires prayers first.

Then a change from the people themselves. Those people we keep complaining of are Nigerians

Hamzashaf99:
Fixing Nigeria's problem...requires prayers first.

Then a change from the people themselves. Those people we keep complaining of are Nigerians

offset67:
If I return that money ma die

Xhuntra:


Seun lalasticlaIa mynd44 OAM4J
Rule 1. Derailing the thread

iokpebholo:
With what's happening in d country today,I must confess, d so called youths are worse than d current leaders.A very sizeable percentage of Nigeria youths are either Yahoo boys, fraudsters,cultist and armed robbers

Stormtrooper11:

Your right,but we got good ones too

heyhey2016:
I like your answer

post=109793142:

We have been praying and we will continue to pray.
Prayers can never be too much.

Then about your second point,
You are absolutely on point.
As we always point out on this forum.
The CHANGE we seek for begins with each and everyone of US.

Let us use the below to butter our point,

Nicenixon:
They also need to burn this constitution we are using and write another constitution that favours the masses and bring about equality before the law no matter the position you attain. There should be harsh punishment for anybody that flaws the law including celebrities and politicians just like China. Our judiciary should have timeline also, not adjourning cases all the time.

Hamzashaf99:

While the construction may be flawed, it's the execution that's the problem.

We are too selfish to do what is necessary in Nigeria to progress

Hamzashaf99:

We always argue, but if there is one thing Buhari has said that's true, it's that change begins with me and everyone. One day, we will get there by God's grace.

flemsy15:
good

It doesn't seem like an average Nigeria wants the right people in Government, we are waiting for APC and PDP to tell us who to vote in the coming presidential election.