RULE YOUR WORLD: PARADIGM-SHIFT FROM AGITATION TO REVO-RESTRUCTURING.

We need a revolution because this system is not a system for the people; because even those who are on the favored side are not able to find true fulfillment- Talita Soares



I have heard Ndigbo, Afeniferere, Ohaneze, Arewa, Ijaw Youth Council and the new kids on the political grandstanding rostrum for restructuring the Middle-belt/South West consultatives not forgetting the evil genius Ibrahim Babangida et al capitalizing on the momentum and I wonder whether this recent show of shame spearheaded by Christopher Kolade, Ike Nwachukwu and Jerry Gana is not an old wine in a new bottle while they are hoping for a different fruitiness and body.

Who is deceiving who with this macabre dance of bourgeoisie ethnic leadership solidarity to consolidate their political and economic domination of the youthful citizenry by hijacking the momentum for restructuring with the hope that the ultimate conflagration that would eventually consume them can be prevented or abated.

The genie is now out of the bottle and agitation for restructuring and redistribution of socio-economic power is now widespread that sitting down in a luxurious art gallery in Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Enugu, Port Harcourt and Sokoto with groups of old money bags jaw- jawing about palliatives cannot stop the impending bloody revolution and a seismic change that would take place given the tsunami of anger within youthful Nigerian citizenry.

It is very disturbing that bourgeoisie ethnic leadership or old money bags who are themselves purveyors of Poverty, Marginalization, Corruption, Ethnic Clientelism, Parochialism, Genocidal Nationalism, Rentier Capitalism, Wastages and Economic Mismanagement of our commonwealth and goodwill for over fifty years still think they are of any significance in finding an acceptable resolution to this generational schism.

The gap of over fifty years embedded in disorientation that has created Evans the kidnapper, Militant armed robbers, Corrupt politicians and Civil servants, Banks money laundering for corporate organizations cum absence of social infrastructures and many more that I cannot find space for in this article have negated any attempt by those bourgeoisie ethnic leadership to tell Nigerian youths their trade mark moonlight tales hoping that they would become delirium.

I heard Christopher Kolade and Ike Nwachukwu talking grandiloquently about we the elders and the young people here today followed with have reached a consensus and I just cannot believe what I am listening to. Who are these young people? Who are they representing? Who nominated them or elected them? So many questions looking for fundamental analysis within the purview of representation.

The young people present at the meeting mentioned by Christopher Kolade and Ike Nwachukwu are not the right kind of people to change Nigeria rather they are an extension of the old money bags, our rentier capitalist ethnic leadership in concert with genocidal nationalist who have mastered the art of fronting on the political scene. What played out in that consultative South West meeting is the usual godfatheristic phenomenon, a disaster that has turned Nigeria into a slave enclave via fronts who are given a leg up covering for their godfathers while majority of the populace wallow in poverty.

You cannot stop this revolution because the time is ripe to change Nigeria socio-economic and political landscape for good, please take a look at the geopolitical basket for agitation in Nigeria and you shall discover that it is universal from Oduduwa nation, Biafra nation, Ijaw nation and the Khaliphate the process is unstoppable. However, the so called elders are more reactionary their inclination is to preserve the status quo because their grandstanding, commentaries are mere sloganeering since those who own the means of production within the framework of capitalist pseudo democracy would do everything to present you with palliative or Greek gift in as much as that would engender their continuous hegemony.

When reactionaries talk of restructuring they are not on the same pedestal with the youths who want socio-economic revolution and redistribution of wealth. Atiku's restructuring is not the same with Nwakwo Kanu's neither is Christopher Kolade's and Ike Nwachukwu's restructuring is the same as Baba Iyabo's but they all have one important common denominator maintaining the status quo.

Political history of Nigeria is riddled with grandstanding by political and economic elites who quickly move in to save their skin when faced with dilemma and citizens uprising a typical example is the June 12 struggle where they manipulated the populace for their own selfish political advancement and the settlement of that drama is what we are confronting right now.

The onus is now on the Nigerian youths not to swallow the bait, keep the agitation on supersonic speed and come together to form yourselves into a solid political movement to prevent those old money bags and rentier capitalist ethnic leadership from hijacking your dream of an egalitarian Nigeria.

OTUNBA ADE ILEMOBADE IS A PHILOSOPHER.
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