Opinion: Seun Onigbinde’s Dagger Through The Heart of Civic Activism, By ‘Fisayo Soyombo
…any critic who so caustically criticises a government, as Onigbinde has done, should stay away from it. To accept an appointment from such a government is to throw a dagger right through the soul of social criticism and the intellectual contestation of ideas. By accepting this appointment, Onigbinde desecrates the institution of civic advocacy which he has recently been a leading member of.
The social media, Twitter in particular, was agog with vitriol on Thursday when news of his appointment filtered out. The height of it all was the exhumation of the much-loved Professor Pius Adesanmi’s April 2018 please-don’t-join-politics tweet, which Onigbinde responded to with a conditional promise not to.
In only eight years of its existence, BudgIT, co-founded by Onigbinde, has done incredible work in exposing gaps in the country’s fiscal processes, independently researching and releasing credible reports on the economic health of states and, indeed, the country, and raising the consciousness of citizens and the civic demand for accountability in public offices.
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