Political power, labour, and the Nigerian state, by Engr. Bello Gwarzo Abdullahi, FNSE In a well-argued and timely essay, The Political Struggle and the State: Towards the Development of a Political Programme for the Nigerian Working Class, Ambassador Usman Sarki interrogates the persistent failure of the Nigerian working class to convert economic struggle into durable political outcomes. His central intervention is direct and unsettling: labour’s weakness does not arise from a lack of militancy, protest culture, or sacrifice, but from the absence of a coherent political programme and an independent...