Nigerian Political Space: Active Or Dull? Editorial
The call, for example, by the APC’s Tinubu and some key members of the party’s Presidential Campaign Council on the anti-graft agencies in the country to prosecute the PDP’s Atiku Abubakar over a revelation made by his former aide, Emmanuel Achimugu, about an alleged fraud is a clear manifestation of desperation of one party to discredit the other.
The ceaseless crossfire between the ruling APC and the biggest opposition party, PDP, is a fundamental source of delight for the other ones, some of which have admonished the Nigerian voters to do away with both during elections. Such parties have dismissed the candidates of the big two as unqualified to rule the country considering the weighty allegations being made against them.
All these happenings are a strong evidence that politicians and many other concerned groups of Nigerians are fully at work and therefore a re-enforcement to the belief that the political space is sufficiently alive and active. The obvious ability of the political class to show defiance against such challenges as insecurity, noticeable public apathy and the disturbing deficiency of some of the stakeholders has continued to somehow raise the level of people’s confidence in the system.
The opinion that the campaigns are dry is continuously informed by the unimpressive approach of the candidates to issues that required enough elucidation. It just appears that the lead contestants are armed with only old solutions to even the newest problems and can, therefore, not convince majority of the citizens about their capabilities and intentions to deliver the required services.
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