{"id":171690,"date":"2025-07-29T12:12:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nigeria-crumbling-due-to-elite-failure-pat-utomi"},"modified":"2025-07-29T13:16:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:16:48","slug":"nigeria-crumbling-due-to-elite-failure-pat-utomi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigeria-crumbling-due-to-elite-failure-pat-utomi","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria crumbling due to elite failure \u2013 Pat Utomi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Professor of political economy, Pat Utomi, has lamented that Nigeria is collapsing under the weight of poverty, insecurity, institutional decay and elite failure.<\/p>\n<p>Utomi, convener of a political coalition, \u2018The Big Tent\u2019, spoke at media briefing where he described the situation in the country as an \u201cexistential crisis requiring urgent civic action and responsible leadership\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rural economy has collapsed. Farmers can\u2019t farm, and yet our political elite are obsessed with convoys, jets and SUVs. It\u2019s morally bankrupt,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Utomi proposed structural reforms including overhauling land tenure laws, empowering universities for extension services, and supporting agro-processing clusters with the view to addressing the challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Weighing in on insecurity, Utomi emphasised the link between poverty and rising violence.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that poverty makes people easy recruits for terrorists and criminals, stressing the need for decentralised policing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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