Elder Jaachi A. E. Nweke (GCFR-in-view)

Where is APC’s BROOM. I mean it’s almost nowhere very visible as it used to be.🤷

For the records and for the sake of setting the facts straight. By 2028 nigeria would have had 28 years of democracy. of this 28 years, power has only being in the North for 11 years while the south has been in power for 17years. I dont know what you can do with this information, however I just feel compelled by the exigencies of time to put this fact outthere🤷‍♂️

looks like #Nationalgrid has collapsed

ADC AND ITS WILD GOOSE CHASE: FROM THE PRISM OF A LOCAL MAN If indeed what ADC intends to do is what APC did in 2015, then I think they are really progressing in error. Whereas we understand the dynamics and relativity of political events, there are some aspects of political events that have elements of constant variables in scientific fields. Winning central elections in very large democracies like ours, Brazil, India, the US etc can’t be done in the absence of strong party establishments at the sub-nationals. Today while the ADC seem like a conglomeration of the political “OGs”, I honestly think they are all either living in a political “delulu” world or they are indulged in self deceit like the Labour Party in 2023. If they ever think that an ADC without a single state governor and state under it’s control or a handful of NASS members can ever win a central election in a country like Nigeria. They all know how elections are won and lost in Nigeria, having been old time players, so I’m amazed at how they are going about thinking they can actually win an election going by their present configurations. The inability the coalition to court one or two of these party orphaned governors looking for political orphanages around shows that they aren’t really a political force to reckon with. The APC in 2015 wasn’t just an orphanage for the likes of Okorocha, Amaechi and co, they saw it as a political fortress from where they can seek political fortification and yes they certainly got that. Today not even a single serving governor sees the ADC coalition as a mere orphanage let alone a fortress. This leaves some of us wondering how they want to achieve this their wild goose chase of winning elections in 2027. In the absence of strong party establishment across the sub-nationals it can only take magic for elections to be won in large democracies like ours and others. However they all know that magic doesn’t happen in politics.🤷

CAPITALISM, INEQUALITY AND THE PLACE OF THE WORKING CLASS: A LOCAL MAN’s REFLECTIONS The biggest problem of humanity today isn’t really poverty, but inequality. And sadly while capitalism may be credited for driving largely all of human innovations and development, it also created the greatest problem of inequality. But for innovations and inventions within the capitalist mix, capitalism doesn’t necessarily create wealth. What happens in trade and service provision sectors within the mix is a negative income redistribution. The profit a trader or service provider makes from where he thinks he is creating wealth is actually the income of others within the society, especially the working class. With the traders and service providers taking away the income of the working class as their profit, an economic inequality is created. With this inequality and without conscious efforts at saving the working class, there would be a continued negative movement of the working class to very low levels within the economic strata of the society. The working class might go so low that it becomes almost impossible to provide basic necessities of food, housing and clothing. While governments and societies have attempted to find a balance to this economic challenge through poverty alleviation programs, unfortunately that alone cannot actually eliminate poverty. Rather effective social safety nets and positive income redistribution policies must be adopted. Governments around the world should have no business taxing its working class more than five percent of income. When you reduce or possibly eliminate personal income tax and increase capital gains tax and company income tax, you free up resources for the working class. Effective mass housing program must be adopted and financed from heavy taxation on the luxurious tastes and wants of the ultra rich. Prioritizing the basic needs of the working class must be at the centre of all of government policies. For instance, today in Nigeria, cars of over twenty years post production should have import waivers, while luxury cars and goods must be heavily taxed because only the ultra rich can afford them. How this can work is that for every luxury car imported, its duty should cover for atleast two twenty years old car which waiver has been given. That’s purely an example of income redistribution policy. Pensions and health insurance should be funded from other sources that isn’t from the income of the working class. When more disposable income is freed up for the working class, their place within the social cum economic stratification is better guaranteed. With rising inflation across the world, the working class is gradually going lower within the economic stratification. Their position as the middle class is more than ever been threatened and saving them must be the priority of all governments across the world. The inability of governments and societies to save their working class poses an existential threat to the sustenance of capitalism. The notion of capitalism is evil is largely hinged on inequality and at the heart of redeeming capitalism would be income redistribution and saving the working class and preserving their place as the middle class in the society. Cc @officialABAT @UN @WorldBank @NGRPresident

Since Putin’s foray into the Kremlin he has had one ultimate goal, “Soviet resuscitationism”. Here today, Lavrov is once again making that ultimate goal clear.. and this is a direct direct to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all former Soviet states. But then it’s also a pointer to the delusional state of mind of Putin and his apologists within the Kremlin🤷

Nigerians and our hypocrisy, today the cash crunch that hitherto crippled our social and economic lives is easing, yet not one single person is appreciating the courage of @elrufai for first approaching the Supreme Court to challenge the decision of the FG and CBN. 😏😏

Talking of the power sector, considering the Constitutional bottleneck associated with Transmission, my question is this what is Mr Obi's framework for the mini-grid operations as one of the panaceas to fixing the power sector? #PeoplesTownhall @channelstv @seunokin

Tor.. me I came too to really confirm if whatsapp is really down oh!

Not too young to run act is a booby trap APC, PDP & the youths must avoid. The new age qualifications as stipulated in the act are totally inconsistent with the provisions of the constitution. Any party that elects its candidates based on the act is only playing with its mandate