🇳🇬 66 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE. BUT WHO REALLY OWNS THE POWER?
Nigeria has been independent for 66 years.
But independence is not simply the absence of colonial rule.
It is also a question of who controls the political power, who controls the national resources, who makes the decisions and whose interests those decisions ultimately serve.
Every election, Nigerians are presented with new parties, new alliances, new slogans and new political personalities.
But beneath the political theatre is a much older question:
Has political power actually become power for the people?
Today, the political class speaks of reforms, growth, prosperity and a new Nigeria.
The opposition speaks of alternatives, coalitions and political realignment.
But Nigerians experience politics somewhere much more concrete:
in the price of food.
In the cost of transport.
In access to jobs.
In electricity bills.
In school fees.
In healthcare.
In security.
In whether a salary can survive the month.
That is why politics cannot be reduced to who occupies the presidential palace, who controls the party structure or who wins the next election.
The deeper question is:
WHAT DOES POLITICAL POWER ACTUALLY DO WITH THE ECONOMIC POWER OF THE STATE?
Who gets access to public resources?
Who gets protected when economic adjustments become painful?
Who carries the burden when government policies impose costs?
And who accumulates wealth when the economy expands?
These are not merely economic questions.
They are political questions.
Nigeria does not lack political activity.
We have parties.
We have elections.
We have politicians.
We have campaigns.
What deserves greater scrutiny is the distribution of power behind the spectacle.
Because democracy is not only about changing the people who occupy political offices.
It is also about asking whose interests the machinery of government serves once those offices have been occupied.
66 years after independence, perhaps the question is no longer simply: “Who governs Nigeria?”
The harder question is:
WHO DOES NIGERIAN POWER WORK FOR?
Follow the power. Follow the budget. Follow the consequences.
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