BY ODIGIE OKPATAKU

Afrobeat musician and outspoken activist Seun Kuti has once again taken a fiery stance against Nigeria’s political system, branding the country’s leaders as “religious nutjobs” and condemning the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for stifling political growth.

In a recent Instagram Live session, the opinionated activist criticized the electoral body for failing to reopen its registration portal since 2019, claiming the move is a deliberate attempt to suppress young Nigerians from participating in politics.

Brothers and sisters, since 2019, INEC has not opened any registration portal. Instead, they register people up and down. INEC has refused to open the portal. They don’t want Nigerians to grow politically.

He slammed the electoral body for allowing Nigeria’s political landscape to be entirely dominated by right-wing conservative forces, with no space for leftist or progressive ideologies.

Seun Kuti did not spare the Nigerian politicians in his rant either; he labeled them as mad and overly-religious ‘nut jobs.’

Mad people that would kill people! I mean, look at Rivers State. That’s a fascist way of governance. That is a right-wing government style. ‘My way on the’ highway’—they start killing people, shooting at certain states, and bringing a military administration.

All our politicians are religious nutjobs. All of them, religion don scatter their brains. Rivers State is the symbol of right-wing fascism in Africa. INEC has brought us into right-wing fascist politics. They are all right-wing. Right, totally right-wing. None of them are Pan-Africanists.