A former senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has urged African countries to begin addressing their political and governance challenges independently, warning against continued reliance on Western powers for validation or intervention.
Sani made the call in a post on his verified X account on Monday, arguing that global attention had shifted away from Africa as Western nations grapple with their own pressing domestic and international crises.
According to him, Europe and the United States are increasingly preoccupied with issues closer to home, leaving African countries largely on their own to manage internal affairs such as elections and governance.
“The European Union is busy elsewhere, and the United States is entangled in multiple domestic and global problems,” Sani wrote. “There is little interest in the conduct of elections in countries like Uganda or Tanzania. We are now in an era where Africans are left to sort out their own problems.”
He added that dissatisfaction with leadership across the continent must be resolved internally, stressing that external actors were no longer inclined to intervene.
“If you like or you don’t like your government, that is your problem,” he said.
