The NPF is merely one of the consequences of Nigeria’s neopatrimonial and prebendal system. Since it exists within this system, it will remain rotten.

Is Tinubu a CIA asset? | @DONUKOGBARA

I’m very grateful that I had the opportunity to read these books. They have significantly deepened my understanding of the historical roots of Nigeria’s contemporary political condition. A substantial part of the foundations of our present problems was laid during the military era. Rather than developing a different trajectory of state-building and institutional development, Nigeria became increasingly entrenched in neopatrimonial and prebendal forms of politics. The military did not merely interrupt democratic rule; it fundamentally reshaped the nature of the Nigerian state and the relationship between political power, institutions and the distribution of resources. Understanding that history is crucial if we are to chart a genuinely different path forward. Thank you @maxsiollun

Outsourcing the organisation of Nigeria to a more deliberate and functioning body | @Stevedede12

'Why must an Igbo be a genius to deserve what other Hausas have collected?' - @DONUKOGBARA

‘The military and democracy are in dialectical opposition. The military can never engender democracy because it is the antithesis of democracy in regard to its norms, values, purposes and structure. The military addresses the extreme and the extra-ordinary while democracy addresses the routine; the military values discipline and hierarchy, democracy freedom and equality. The military is a taut chain of command; democracy is a benign anarchy of diversity. Democracy presupposes human sociability; the military presupposes its total absence, the inhuman extremity of killing the opposition. The military demands submission, democracy enjoins participation; one is a tool of violence, the other a means of consensus building for peaceful co-existence’. Claude Ake

Chaos vs Order: Understanding Nigeria

'Tinubu is a local champion' - @DONUKOGBARA

'Values are created on the basis of comparison' - @Stevedede12

"One must be a sea to receive a polluted stream without becoming unclean." - Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

'Ken Saro-Wiwa wanted to be top dog' - @DONUKOGBARA

'Ken Saro-Wiwa almost destroyed Ogoniland' - @DONUKOGBARA

‘Nnamdi Kanu is nothing like Ojukwu, Garrick Leton’ - @DONUKOGBARA

“What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself." Hecato, quoted in Seneca, Letters to Lucilius, 6.7

‘I wish Biafra had worked’ - @DONUKOGBARA

“You have passed through your life without meeting an antagonist: no one will know your powers, not even you yourself." Seneca, On Providence, 4.3

What do you think of Fubara?

Did Lagos make Tinubu? @DONUKOGBARA

Is Peter Obi running for St. John’s the Baptist or President? | @DONUKOGBARA