[Opinion] Economic History As Against Political ,The Route To Revolution And The Change We Want

Having watched  and observed with raft
attention, the
upheavals,violence,maiming,religious
bigotry that has raised its ugly head at the
2011 post election, which variably or
invariably could be linked to political
desperado’s and underdogs who allegedly
want to use its ugly tool to upset the
peaceful coexistence in the country in
their false claim to indirectly
revolutionalized the country .
Funny enough our directionless leaders
and desperate acclaimed revolutionalist
don’t know our route or history and
therefore don’t know where to take us to,
while it has been evidential that since
independence in 1960 ethnic and
religious violence has raised its ugly head
which could also be assumed to be
masterminded by some inpatriots  from
the troubled region ,but they forgot to
understand the fact that such a tool could
yield or score them low or none political
points ,hence ethnic biases, reprisal
attacks etc abound thereby disunifying
their solidarity from counter or opposite
groups to achieve their selfish  national
desires.
In view of Karl max philosophy and
ideology, it could be understood that he
posited that unemployment, inflation etc
(brain child of economic downturns) is the
bomb politicians and government have
planted  that will destroy and dethrone
them, therefore  it  is in the light of these
that even the deaf and daft  would know
revolution is not miles away, taking
cognizance of our history in 1929 where
the Aba market women took to the
streets to protest the increment of tax
and fees levied on them, the protest and
riot which drew nearer to sacking the
colonial government was marked by
indiscriminate destruction of colonial
governments properties and endangered
the lives of colonial masters ,hence the
colonial masters wasted no time to revise
the tax regime.
Again just on January 2012 the removal of
subsidy mounted pressure on goodluck’s
administration, when Nigerians
persistently and aggressively took to the
streets to protest the against the
removal of fuel subsidy, and even started
calling for the resignation of president
jonathan.The situation which was thought
to have been influenced by the Arab
revolution and Jonathan wasted no time
in reducing the petrol price against his
wish just to restore normalcy and avoid
dethronement.
Categorically economic factors predict our
decisive action, while revolutionist
proponents and activists have failed to
understand the major factor that could
spur it, while the government on its side
has also failed to understand the yawning,
aspirations and value (economic) of the
masses.