GodLight International Journal

n this conference, focusing on the interface of humanistic values and scientific innovations in shaping our world, I have chosen to relate on GodLight content-network potentials as the master key to opening up and restoring real democratic engagement in Nigeria’s polis as a contribution to the enthronement of a stable and solid governmental democratic engineering process in the country. I am very much convinced that such a democratic rebirth will undoubtedly usher in a new Nigeria where unity, brotherhood, progress and peace will be the order of the day. Knowing very well in Nigeria, that her ship of state has been wobbling like a punctured tyre over the last six decades of political independence as well as our observed sorry state of murky waters in her democratic agenda, it becomes very pertinent and important to investigate the “whys, whats and hows” of these discomfitures. Going back into our memory lane, we can still recall the murky waters of the sixties that gave birth to the Nigeria- Biafra war; those that trailed the Obasanjo and Goodluck regimes in the form of insecurity threats of Boko haram and other insurgencies that threatened the nation to her marrows. Buhari’s government of “HOPE” contrarily brought in hopelessness and hunger in the lives of the masses. And Tinubu’s government of Renewed Hope is currently that of renewed hopelessness as hunger, super inflation and bad governance are the masses’ bed-fellows. And the masses are no longer comfortable with this ugly state of affairs. Recent protests in the land, like the “End Sars” in 2020 and the “END BAD GOVERNANCE” in 2023 are ample evidences to showcase the burden of the masses as per bad governance in the land. Even in our elections, especially in the last general elections of 2023, copious riggings saw to a flagrant and open bastardisation of the majority voices to the exaltation of the minority voices in Presidential race which brought into power the unpopular person into the noble office of President.

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