"The Unresolved Minority Question in an Electioneering Society: The Igbomina Dilemma"
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2018-04
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Nigeria Police Academy Journal of Humanities, Wudil, Kano
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The thesis of this paper bothers on the dilemma of the Igbomina people and the yet-to-be-resolved lingering minority question, within the electioneering society she finds herself. The long siege on the political will of the marginalised minority peoples, particularly Igbomina, should not be misconstrued as a resort to fate; but a "muted brouhaha" or at best, a bottled explosive! Or is it not a fool that loves his chains even if ornamented with gold? Only timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty. The paper adopts the historical, narrative and multi-disciplinary approach, with a combination of primary and secondary sources of data collection. The findings in this study point to the fact that despite the myriads of accolades, following the 2015 General Elections, much is yet left to be desired, particularly by the aggrieved minority who seem not to be getting the best from the electioneering society. The paper concludes that the micro-revolution experienced during the 2015 General Elections, which came as a rude shock to the political power brokers, might just be the beginning of a Macro-revolution, from the minority and unjustly 'schismised' people. This paper, on one hand, recommends an urgent attention from a responsive government to the plight of the marginalised minority groups in Nigeria. On the other hand, it challenges the Igbomina and other minority groups to be more spirited in their pursuit of the ideology of the “effacement of man’s inhumanity to man”; for there the victory lies.
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Igbomina, electioneering, minority question, dilemma
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5. Aboyeji, A. J. (2018) "The Unresolved Minority Question in an Electioneering Society: The Igbomina Dilemma" Nigeria Police Academy Journal of Humanities, Wudil, Kano, Vol. 2, No. 1 (April, 2018), pp.381- 400.