2023: Labour, 50 CSOs Storm Kano, Endorse The Nigeria Agenda

The ancient city of Kano stood still on Monday as the National Prosperity Movement led over 50 Civil Society Organisations and Students to the landmark civic engagement of The Nigeria Agenda (TNA) at the Mambayya House.

One after the other, National Prosperity Movement, Democratic Action Group, Community Right Initiative of Nigeria, Haliru Memorial Youths Development Council, Isa Wali Empowerment Initiative, Foundation Against child abuse, Women in Agriculture, Council of Ulaama, APC (Kano chapter) announced their presence and their interest to engender a new Nigeria.

In his keynote address, Dr Joe Gana said the gathering became imperative with the emergence of several ethnic organizations like the Southwest Agenda( SWAGA) trying to impose ethic agendas on the country.

“We can no longer sit without taking action with the emergence of ethnic champions masquerading as leaders else ethnic agendas will destroy the nation. We have to come up with a national agenda in order to put our ethnic champions in their proper place “

Breaking down the objective of the advocacy mission, Chairman of the Buhari Media Organization (BMO) and Chief Advocate of the TNA, Mr Niyi Akinsiju, Chief Advocate of TNA acknowledged the historical and progressive political antecedent of Kano which informed the choice of the city to host the inaugural edition of the TNA advocacy:

“Indeed, the choice of Kano is the outcome of a rationalisation that was premised, not only on the city’s central positioning in Nigeria’s Northwest geopolitical zone, but more significantly, because of its robust history of citizens’ engagements made manifest in the historical sublimity of the Talakawa political culture and tradition that still define the politics of the city and to a large extent, the politics of the State in contemporary times.”

Noting the launch of The Nigeria Agenda in Kano, Akinsiju said, Kano’s history of citizens’ political activism and ideological pedigree should be adopted by the nation’s mainstream citizenship class as a paradigm of choice in the national effort to identify and elect responsible and accountable political office seekers at all levels of governance:

history is replete with politicians and peripheral political activists of different hues and characterisations, who, at convenience, and in pursuit of vain political and material gains, routinely verbalise, in vicious excoriation, the challenges and deficiencies of Nigeria’s nationhood and, sometimes, in the most delinquent manners, engaged in brazen revisionism as they fraudulent maneuver to manipulate public sentiments with the end to set one group of Nigerians against the others, in mind, with primary intent at securing places and advantages within the nation’s political leadership hemisphere.

“Whilst Kano’s political and ideological pedigrees provide a strong ground to host this advocacy, we equally find an alluring proposition in the testimonials of the political activism of its political history, which continues to evolve through contemporary times, as a paradigm of adaptation for The Nigeria Agenda.”

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