Professor of Economics, Pat Utomi, has described as a terrible mistake, the calibre of persons currently dominating Nigeria’s political system.
In a pre-Ramadan lecture held today, April 12, in Lagos, Utomi said this class of politicians have moved Nigerians from citizenship to idiocy.
“Nigeria is travelling in the wrong direction. This is really the problem. The gap between us and them is pushed in this emotional pulse,” Mr Utomi was quoted to have said by Punch.
“We seem to stumble from crisis to crisis. In Nigeria, everything you say that seems to be structured, people dismiss it. They say, ‘Na grammar we go chop?’
“They forgot that every action starts from a theory. But this anti-intellectual disposition, not thinking, make us create mountains in a small manhole and put our country in a state of permanent crisis.
“We seem unable to have a rational conversation. Nigeria politics irritates, annoys me because it is not dealing with issues people are dealing with,” he said.
