Tag: Nigeria: power struggle

NOVANEWS Edwin Madunagu   oblong media Although participation in “bourgeois politics”—as we used to call electoral politics—has never been absent from the Nigerian Left’s general programme, it has also not been made a “categorical imperative”. I am, however, now persuaded that it has become generally accepted in the ranks of contemporary Nigerian Leftists that intervention and participation in the country’s electoral struggle—for office or for power, as an organised political force and in alliance or acting separately—have become ...read more Nigeria Movements of Nigeria’s ruling class Edwin Madunagu   Launch9 The political terrain in Nigeria, today has two colossal parties—PDP and APC—vying for power at the national lev...