Sorry folks, foreign powers will not solve Nigeria’s problems
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Tue Jun 29 2021
Petitions are an essential part of democracy because they can make those in authority feel the pulse of the people and, hopefully, review or make course corrections to potentially harmful or socially disruptive policies. But not all petitions are equal. Some, like the recent flood of petitions by sundry groups in Nigeria to the United Nations and foreign powers to intervene and compel the Nigerian government to address certain controversial issues within a timeline of their choosing, are simply ludicrous, because the petitioners should know that those foreign authorities lack the power they have ascribed to them.