Might this be the calm before the storm in Nigeria? A major indication suggests that the activists might be warming up against the brand of capitalist direction President Bola Tinubu is piloting.
The major prelude is a symposium at which speakers picked from all corners of the country will be speaking. The D-Day is June 24th, 2023 in Lagos where the recent loan scheme of the Federal Government as well as energy price hike would be radically problematised.
It would be one huge paradox as President Tinubu stood shoulder to shoulder with the radical activists in January 2012 on the energy price hike and the subsequent test of strength with the Dr Goodluck Jonathan administration then.
Although meaning is contingent and what one said yesterday is not a baggage today, activists are very sharp at counter-language and they can catch the president off-guard in a discursive contestation.
It would be interesting to see which camp wins the battle for hegemony. This is more so that the president has himself been an activist, meaning that Nigeria might be opportune to witness a battle of the titans once again.
