Prof Adele Jinadu
“The inexorable logic of ‘the perpetual crises of democracy’ referred to earlier in this paper and their contradictions demands the imperative of forging a mass movement straddling ethnic barriers, in state and society; with members serving as virtual neighborhood night watch guards to reinvent electoral politics and protect electoral mandate. The countervailing role of the middle class and particularly intellectuals and professional groups is central to forging such a coalition”
- From Keynote Address at the International Conference on the 2019 Elections in Nigeria by the Programme on Ethnic and Federal Studies, (PEFS), University of Ibadan, June 24 – 26th, 2019
