A Nigerian-American professor and newspaper columnist, Farooq Kperogi, has criticised how Nigerian presidential candidates rushed to the United Kingdom’s Chatham House with the excitement of “giddy, little children to speak there.” Kperogi in an article published on Saturday added that it was most absurd in the recent Nigerian history how Nigerian presidential candidates shunned local media and jumped at neo-colonnial gatherings to seek acceptability.
It’s Most Absurd How Tinubu, Peter Obi, Kwankwaso Jumped At Chatham House Like Excited, Little Children – US Scholar, KperogiKperogi in an article published on Saturday added that it was most absurd in the recent Nigerian history how Nigerian presidential candidates shunned local media and jumped at neo-colonnial gatherings to seek acceptability.
Kperogi in an article published on Saturday added that it was most absurd in the recent Nigerian history how Nigerian presidential candidates shunned local media and jumped at neo-colonnial gatherings to seek acceptability. He wrote, “The increasingly central role that British think factory Chatham House is playing in Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election, which has seen most of our top presidential contenders trooping like giddy little children to speak there, is the most absurd extreme I can find in recent Nigerian history of a phenomenon that social anthropologists call the cultural cringe.“There is rampant cultural cringe in Nigeria, and it is manifesting prominently in this election cycle.
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