Alumni associations of institutions must continue to actively participate in politics in order to correct Nigeria’s poor education system and fractured society.
Goldennewsng reports that this is as per the President, Solidarity Schools Old Understudies Affiliation (USOSA), Micheal Magaji, who keeps up with that as opposed to regretting the accepted unfortunate schooling system in Nigeria, alumni of extraordinary foundations should embrace the following political agreement to change the account.
Magaji also stated that if stakeholders develop an interest in politics and bring in the diversity they were taught as students to foster unity, education in Nigeria can be restored to its former glory and unity restored.
At the 39th Annual General Meeting of USOSA, during a presentation on the topic: Project Nigeria Comes Together: Magaji stated, “Unity and Good Governance, Panacea for Sustainable Development”—without Nigerians, “Nigeria cannot be what it should be.”
He stated that many Nigerians who attended Federal Unity Colleges were taught to accept diversity and thrive in groups of people of different ethnicities in an effort to build a truly united Nigeria.
“When we take into consideration the diversity, the spread, the strive, I dare say the tribal discord that is going on, there’s no better person to bring out Nigeria than a Nigerian,” he said, bolstering his position for political inclusion. It cannot detach from the sky.
Unity schools have chosen to promote the Nigeria Unite agenda as a result. Let us be who we are and once more be who we are in the market. By that, I mean expressing ourselves and demonstrating that tribes and religions share a common goal and a common understanding. The Nigeria we are meant to be can then be ours.
Without engaging in political play, we cannot bring about lasting change in Nigeria. We need to bring people into the system who understand and value diversity and allow them to make decisions that bring us all together.
We can now begin building the Nigeria that it ought to be in terms of education once you have control over politics. Education necessitates both funding and the right teachers and administrators.
Captain Ibrahim Mshelia, in support of Magaji’s position, stated that the detribalized nature of former Unity College students made them better suited to participate actively in politics.
He stated that the goal of unity schools is to unite Nigeria, but that they appear to have failed the nation because they stopped encouraging unity, even among themselves.
“You must first unite before you can have good governance, but the disunity we have been experiencing recently should serve as a wake-up call; dust off the desks, dust off the wardrobes, and face it.
We have therefore awoken, and once we are able to accept power, we will be able to effect change. This will be done by USOSA. We are a detribalized people—the only group of Nigerians who are detribalized—and we are all one people. We have no religious beliefs. For instance, my wife is a Christian from Asaba Delta State and I am a Muslim from Borno State. This could only have happened because I am a USOSAN; it is believed that we are all aware that we are first Nigerians before anything else.
“The 2023 election is a determining factor that we are all bleeding—the people in government as well as the people who are not in government—so the time is ripe to move forward with pro-unity philosophy and ideology and elect leaders who are able to do the job, not because they are Muslims or Christians or because they have done it before. Mshelia stated, “Nigerians should now unite and vote for people who are credible.”
