Political economist, management expert and public intellectual Prof. Pat Utomi has told Nigerians that no messiah is coming to rescue them, stressing that only the collective will of the people can bring change.
Speaking on Arise News on Tuesday, Utomi argued that opposition parties would be more effective in unseating the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, in 2027 if they collaborate and cooperate on key issues.
He rejected the notion that the opposition can only defeat the incumbent through a formal merger, insisting that any of the opposition parties could prevail on a level playing field.
However, he emphasised the need for cooperation to strengthen their chances.Utomi said:
“And so, whoever comes from amongst them and is the one that has the headwind to make that happen can do it a little more easily, but there have to be conditions.
“Conditions that advance the common good. For too long, I’ve watched our country deal with the challenge of power versus purpose.
“People are obsessed with power, and purpose is not clear. And then you have power come to them, and they’re just the same as the lot before them, or sometimes much worse, as we have seen repeatedly.
“It’s been a downward slide. So there are a number of things that must happen. We have to aggregate certain things. We have to come to a collegial understanding that whoever has passed the post has to function within a certain context in which the common good is kind of agreed. And this messiah complex, ‘Oh, it’s this man who will save us’, nonsense.
“There’s no messiah out there. The will of the people, properly articulated in the group that says the current order does not work, let’s replace it with something better for all of us. And so, collegially, they find a new way forward for their country.”
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