THE NIGERIAN NATIONAL QUESTION

Abstract

It is a fundamental conviction that ‘civism’ must be major among the instruments for the appreciation of an enduring national democratic enterprise. Nigeria is an emerging democratic society since the ‘1999-launch’ of our fourth republic. It is also a factum that Nigeria has grossly failed the hermeneutical properties and modalities of democratic practices denotable and commutable in and through the political virtues of patriotism, credibility, integrity, triumph of the principles of civility and the civilization of love. The multifaceted political vices of political-defections, cheating, stubborn-subordinations, hard-powers, smart-power, duplicity, fraud, executive indiscipline, pretentious disclaimers and cabalisms-hidden-agenda, Fulani herdsmen killings, kidnappings, religious bigotry and the displacements of peoples from their ethnic historical homelands etc. have stifled the purities of democratic dispensations of good governance in Nigeria. Based on the above factors, democracy in Nigeria has so far not protected and projected the representation of a civil society, the coordination of the people’s will and mandate, the common national values, resourceful guidance of available skills, peaceful control, co-existence, national identity as a pride of place, responsible social and political ideologies etc.