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(Being text of a statement by The Campaign for The Socialist Transformation of Nigeria [CAST Nigeria] 10/03/2023)
As the Nation goes into the Governorship and State Assembly elections on Saturday, 18th March 2023; the ruling class and a significant section of the precarious middle class, with the politicians, and in particular, the main candidates and the main political parties, at their head have doubled down on spewing hate, spreading falsehood, and on the mobilization of ethnic, religious, ethno-religious, and geopolitical hatred and grievances.
Ethnic irredentists and religious bigots are taking control of the media space – both conventional and new.
They are digging down in entrenched positions, threatening fire and brimstone, mobilizing ordinary citizens, the working people and toiling masses of our country, against one another, and shamelessly, and remorselessly stoking up the flames of discord, and the fire of vengeance among our people.
We say enough is enough. Reasonable voices must stand up to be heard, and it is our bounden duty to call on the overwhelming majority of our people who are poor working people and toiling masses, to refuse to be divided along ethnic, religious and geopolitical lines, and to resist every attempt to make them hate and be prepared to harm their fellow working people and toiling masses.
On the eve of the National level elections that took place on the 25th of February, we had addressed a press briefing and had warned about the consequences of the ethno-religious and geopolitical mobilizations of the ruling class, and their stormtroopers from the middle class. The situation is only getting worse, with the ethnic irredentists and religious bigots now dug in their respective trenches.
With yet another manifestation of the gross failure of the ruling class, and the capitalist system, evident in this ongoing retreat from sanity and embrace of madness; it is once again clear that the only class capable of salvaging the situation and of preventing this precipitate descent into the abyss of chaos, is the Working Class, and the other exploited classes of society.
It is now the duty of this class, and its organized expressions – in particular the Trade Unions, other organizations of the working people, and the organized Left and Radical political formations to step into the fray, to prevent the ruling class from throwing us into catastrophic implosion, the burden, and consequences of which, shall be mostly borne by the working people and toiling masses. Voting in the upcoming elections is a right of the people guaranteed by the constitution.
But as we prepare to cast our votes, we call on the working class to reject the ethno-religious and geopolitical narratives and counter-narratives that are sowing the seeds of ethnic and religious hatred and nurturing the plant of violence, that can only end in a state of mutually assured destruction for everyone involved.
Why should our class unite and reject these competitive and mutually antagonistic mobilizations by the ruling class?
Because, as a class, we are united in our victimhood, in being the real victims of the failure of the system and of the ruling class, and the consequences of this failure, open for us to see unprecedented levels of poverty and impoverisation of the working people across the country; in the endemic levels of insecurity across the country that has crippled the livelihoods of the working people, led to the killing, injury and abductions of several tens of thousands of the working people; as well as in the unrelenting rise in the cost of living, with the resultant precipitate decline in the conditions of living of our people – again across the country.
As working people, across all geopolitical zones, across all ethnic nationalities, and across all the religious faiths of this country; we face a common enemy – the ruling class; bear a common burden – hardships, poverty, joblessness, homelessness, insecurity; and as such share a common destiny and interest in building our solidarity as a class; and in uniting to fight and defeat the common enemy – the ruling class and the capitalist system.
We should not be fighting ourselves or each other, we should not be listening to the ethnic and religious mobilizations of the different factions of the ruling class and their middle-class stormtroopers.
We call on our class to unite against hardships, as well as against the ominous divide-and-rule tactics of this shameless and failed ruling class.
Furthermore, we call on our class to hold all the leading lights of the ruling class and their middle-class stormtroopers, who have been acting with impunity, to account, and hold them responsible.
Furthermore, we call on our class to eschew ethnic and religious bigotry and go about exercising their right to vote in a manner that rejects the dangerous narratives of the ethnic irredentists and religious bigots.
Furthermore, we call on the organizations of our class to step up, take responsibility, and give class leadership to the working people and toiling masses.
Working People Of Nigeria: Unite!
Prof. Omotoye Olorode
Chair,
CAST-NIGERIA Campaign organization
Comrade Jaye Gaskia National Coordinator,
CAST-NIGERIA Campaign Organization
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