Office Of The Citizen with Chude Jideonwo: Will The Third Party Candidates Please Stand Up?
Nigerians talk a good game about third party candidacies, especially Nigerians on social media. They speak often about this utopia where Nigerians have had more than two options for president of Nigeria, and we could have chosen any of these options instead of what they consider less-than-ideal alternatives in our last two national election cycles. […]
Office Of The Citizen With Chude Jideonwo: Not Too Young To Run – And So What?
Let’s start from the beginning – I am completely in support of the #NotTooYoungToRun campaign. The campaign is based on a bill before the National Assembly that seeks to alter sections 65, 106, 131, 177 of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) – to reduce the age qualification for several […]
Office Of The Citizen With Chude Jideonwo: What Nigerian Billionaires Should Consider Doing With All That Money
Do our billionaires believe in nothing? This question came to me just after I spent the past hour with one of the most striking young people I have met recently. While a good number of young people talk a good game about political participation and youth engagement beyond civil society, he has actually taken the […]
Not Too Young To Run Movement Response to Speaker Dogara
Press Release July 21, 2017 The Not Too Young To Run movement received with pleasure, the statement issued by the office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara reaffirming his commitment and that of the House of representatives to the passage of the Not Too Young to Run bill […]
Office of The Citizen with Chude Jideonwo: The High Standards to Which We Must Hold Our Leaders
I have heard this bit of nonsense constantly – seen it sometimes on social media, in comment boxes or random commentary: that because I actively, enthusiastically and unrepentantly threw personal and professional weight behind the election of a political office holder, I have somehow lost the moral right to speak out against him. Nonsense. As […]
Office of The Citizen with Chude Jideonwo: Today’s Nigerian Dream
Because we run a nation building company that is the continent’s leading expert on elections, we routinely sit in on meetings with politicians who want to be president, who want to explore being president, who want to push forward candidates who should be president, and who just want to brainstorm through what the presidency means […]
Chude Jideonwo: Dear President Buhari, You Have Broken Our Hearts
Two years ago to this day, you brought me to tears. You were in our nation’s capital, being inaugurated as the first Nigerian in our nation’s history to win the presidency from an opposition party. I was far away, in Lagos; but I had a cherished privilege: to be the one to publish the very […]
Chude Jideonwo: Office of the Citizen – Don’t be Annoyed o, but Please, Who Spoilt Nigeria?
There is something curious that you might have noticed. Something as strange as it is weird. And it should worry you. We don’t appear to know who ‘spoilt’ Nigeria. ‘Spoilt’ of course is the colloquial shorthand for all that ails our nation – corruption, poor leadership, stillbirth policy, diving quality of life, and gaping income […]
Chude Jideonwo: Office Of The Citizen – Why You Must Ignore Those Who Say Protests Don’t Work In Nigeria
“I was really hopeful about the February 2face protests,” a friend of mine told me over lunch just recently. “And terribly disappointed when he chickened out. It was the one protest I decided I would go out for.” Then she added the clincher: “Because for me I don’t think protests in Nigeria are effective, and […]
Chude Jideonwo: NO – You DON’T Get To Give Up On Nigeria
I would be dishonest if I said I didn’t expect that my last piece to have some effect, but I certainly didn’t anticipate the intensity of the connection; people who felt exactly the same way, who thought someone had reached deep into their hearts and retrieved their anger, and their disappointment, and their sadness. It […]