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Why Nigerian Revolutionaries Ended as Resolutionaries

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<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;98 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"oSG0JRlz" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>-Sir&period; Kuli Kuli&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"TdvysAIK" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>-Nigeria has lots of committed youth that always love to change situations even through <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;tandfonline&period;com&sol;doi&sol;abs&sol;10&period;1080&sol;09644010008414559&quest;journalCode&equals;fenp20">radical Activism<&sol;a>&comma;&lpar;Revolutionaries induced&rpar; but mostly at a point&semi; they all end up as &&num;8216&semi;resolutionaries instead of revolutionaries&period; We mostly forget that it is not about the radical mindset of the individual&comma; it is about a collective pattern of thinking and behavior that changes society&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"d3bRkYMQ" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>-Radical struggle or conscious activism&lpar;with Revolution in mind&rpar; is a good thing&comma; in fact&comma; it is the most salvaging effort to liberate a people&comma; but before you insist on being a radical figure-head&comma; kindly dig deep to understand the beginning and the end of the past Senior comrades&comma; veteran strugglist&comma; radical critiques and organic intellectuals that learn from the tradition of Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral&comma; most importantly&comma; remember that you are in Nigeria&excl;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a class&equals;"LinkSuggestion&lowbar;&lowbar;Link-sc-1mdih4x-2 dcwLhi" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nigeriantracker&period;com&sol;2020&sol;06&sol;14&sol;prof-odinkalu-52-garland-for-an-unrepentant-human-rights-activist&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">Prof Odinkalu &commat;52&colon; Garland for an unrepentant Human Rights Activist<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>-Those that have a history of successful radical struggle down to a finished line had a different country&comma; with a different system and a different mentality of the people&period; The recklessness and clamp-down impunity of law enforcement agents especially if instructed by politicians&comma;  is beyond description&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;98 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad5" id&equals;"quads-ad5" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>-Nigeria is a country with Criminogenic problems&comma; with a history of crushing radical opposition&lpar;Revolution in mind&rpar; and rising political detention&comma; intentional abnormalities&comma; unwarranted arrest&comma; reckless assassination&comma; shameless impunity &plus; disorganized &amp&semi; less conscious youths&period; In this part of the world&comma; nobody cares about your rights or privileges&comma; Constitutional recognition or moral ground&comma; try do any &&num;8220&semi;gra gra and see gra gra&&num;8221&semi; claim for your right and receive slaps from the violators of your right &plus; additional insults that&&num;8217&semi;ll be coming from the &&num;8220&semi;country pipu wey no dey support you&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>-A country where even the soldiers &amp&semi; the police are seen shooting themselves with no justification&comma; officers can &&num;8220&semi;Kidnaparrest&&num;8221&semi; or kill an activist anytime&comma; anywhere and anyhow&comma; the people only supports you when you are pushing their interest&comma; the media mostly care for money before &&num;8220&semi;creating headlines&&num;8221&semi; to rubbish your personality&period; How did Faruk Lawal ended&comma; the moment you seem to be growing in Radical sense&comma; be prepared to be intimidated and rubbished&period; This is the end stories of most of our activists&excl;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;98 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>-There&&num;8217&semi;s a very sensitive lesson to be learned from two Radical Activists&colon; Adams Osho and Shehu Sani&period; One was a radical labor leader and the other was a radical human rights Activist&period; At a point&comma; Osho and Shehu ended as a party chairman and a Senator&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This has proven that Nigeria will always frustrate your radical confrontations&comma; either through opportunities or threats&comma; which has killed many radical Activists&period; Those that died from Activism are forgotten today&comma; the few that remembered them doesn&&num;8217&semi;t support their family in any way&period;&lpar;what a futile Revolutionaries idea&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>-A country that never mourns people&&num;8217&semi;s death&comma; a country that frustrated the likes of Dr&period; Yusuf Bala Usman&comma; Gani Oyesola Fawehinmi&comma; dismantled Ken Saro Wiwa and the Ogoni nine heroes&comma; Comrade Chima Ubani&comma; Bola Ige&comma; Dele Giwa&comma; etc and up to this day&comma; nothing happen to their Killers&period; Look&comma; radicalism in civilized places have public support&comma; the youths stand by you&comma; organizations funds you&comma; billionaires and concerned citizens will always stand behind the advocates&comma; but in Nigeria the reality is different&period;&lpar;Revolutionaries Inclusive&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>-If you think you are born radical&comma; then remember the likes of Prof Yolamu Barongo&comma; Okot a P&&num;8217&semi;itek&comma; the veteran Pan Africanist Ocello Oculi&comma; he likes of Yusuf Bangura&comma; AB Zack Williams&comma; radical scholars&comma; like Dr&period; Patrick Wilmot&comma; Ali Mazrui&comma; etc&comma; where are they today&quest; Are we collectively working to uphold what they &&num;8220&semi;radically worked&&num;8221&semi; for&quest; Or we are just hoping for a change without hard work&quest;&period; There were &&num;8220&semi;progressive minds&&num;8221&semi; and what we are seeing today are &&num;8220&semi;problematic minds&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>-From 1700 down to 1820 to the end of slavery&comma; INDEPENDENCE in 1960 and down to post-independent struggles&comma; there were radical defenders of the people&comma; shining stars for radical consistency and total commitment to the struggle for the liberation of the ordinary people in the midst of bad governance&period; Since 1999&comma; the return of a confused system of government called &&num;8220&semi;Nigerian democracy&&num;8221&semi; in politics have ensured that radicals don&&num;8217&semi;t survive the push&comma; making sure that their &&num;8220&semi;fellow people&&num;8221&semi; are brainwashed against them&comma; with all kinds of threats and criminality over them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>-We need a patriotic&comma; responsible&comma; selfless&comma; incorruptible&comma; committed and courageous YOUTHS&comma; not the class of youth filled with greed&comma;  fear&comma; envy&comma; ignorance and blind love for money and politicians&comma; if you are a radical Activist&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ll notice that nobody wants to suffer or die with you but enjoin&comma; anytime you are on a struggle&comma; if you survive it they will hail you and if you suffer it or die&comma; everyone will just pity you&comma; while others mock you&period; In fact&comma; those that struggle during the military regimes enjoy better cooperation&comma; support&comma; and solidarity than now that almost everyone is hungry for the political benefits&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>-If things must change&comma; then every one of the majority must be part of the struggle&lpar;Revolutionaries&rpar;&period; Secondly&comma; Radical or liberal Activism with a view to changing Nigeria requires the ardent involvement of every sector of the society&comma;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>because CHANGE is a collective project that is faced by all in order to promote moral&comma; political&comma; intellectual and socio-economic development&period; Hence&comma; as individuals&comma; organizations&comma; groups&comma; and communities&comma; we must establish a participatory platform on social reorientation&comma; reorganization&comma; and collective hard work through which we can challenge&comma; ask questions&comma; contribute&comma; and hold every leader accountable for their action for or against the society&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Zaid Ayuba Alhaji &lpar;Sir&period; Kuli Kuli&rpar;&period; ND&comma; PDDPIT&comma; PDDPGD&comma; HPDDPIT&comma; and B&period; Sc International Relations&period; 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