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As recently as 7/8 years ago, I would have reacted with disdain and disgust if you had suggested that I would ever enter the murky waters of Nigerian politics. But some things made me change my mind and to realize there’s no other place to make the real change we want happen.
First, I find the level of poverty in Nigeria heartbreaking. Why, I ask myself, should a country with so much potential be so poor? Answer: because it suffers from a lethal combination of incompetent governance, industrial scale corruption and willful mis-governance.
Sometime in 2017 I delivered a lecture at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs in Lagos. After the lecture people surrounded me expressing appreciation for the insights the lecture gave them. But several people, including an old friend who was decidedly a university
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