Last week, Nigerian gay rights activist, Bisi Alimi, hinted that
he may be joining Nigerian politics soon. This afternoon, he
confirmed his intention and also gave reasons why he is
venturing into the political scene.
"It's been a year since I made my first return trip back
to Nigeria after 8. I wrote this piece on Facebook a
year ago, the only thing that has changed has been
the harsh economic situations over 80% of Nigerians
found themselves now. The poor has become poorer.
The indifference of the political class is of concern
and the religious organisations are abandoning their
responsibility to the poor while they enrich
themselves. This is the reason I will be going into
politics because, you don't pray change into being,
you forced it into being. This won't be change like
before. No it won't be business as usual.
This will be
change driven by the audacity to hope"he wrote
