If na you,
wetin you go do?
If Na You is a civic education tool. It puts you inside the challenges, the trade-offs and the decisions that governing Nigeria requires.
Play as Nigeria’s president and face difficult choices. Or explore what you believe first, with twenty-one questions.
Your twenty-one answers
Change any of them and your reading changes with it.
Your political philosophy, based on your answers
These are the patterns in what you answered.
The chart, and how this was worked out
The square plots two of the seven dimensions — the federation and the economy — because they are the two Nigerian politics argues about most. It is not the whole reading, and the other five are above. How the instrument works.
What happens when these priorities compete? Stating a position and holding it under pressure are different things.
You have a position. Do they?
You have just answered twenty-one questions about how Nigeria should be governed. Here is where the people asking for your vote on 16 January stand on the same twenty-one.
Every name comes from INEC's final list, published on 12 September 2026. None of them has published a position on these questions — not because any of them was asked and refused. The register is its own page.
Meet your candidates
Eighteen people are asking to be President on 16 January. Most Nigerians could name four of them.
This is INEC's final list of 12 September 2026. Several suits affecting party registration and candidate eligibility were pending on that date, so the field may yet change.
Eight years in office.
If you can manage it.
You will receive proposals and choose between two responses. Your decisions change the balance between the Street, the Palace, the Barracks, the Purse and the Governors.
Keep all five away from either extreme. Drive one to nothing and you are governing a crisis — and some of those crises end presidencies.
Your first proposal is waiting.
Why If Na You exists
There is a sentence I have been arguing with for years:
Nigerian politics isn't driven by ideology.
Usually, it is offered as the end of the conversation. I think it is where a more interesting one begins.
If you wanted to raise the quality of Nigerian political argument over twenty years, I don't think you would start with candidates, parties or manifestos.
You would start with language.
People cannot hold anyone to a position they have no words for. And it is difficult to understand what we disagree about when our political vocabulary doesn't describe the choices we are actually making.
So the question behind If Na You is:
What would a Nigerian political spectrum look like if we derived it from our own history rather than importing left and right?
If Na You is one attempt at an answer.
It isn't designed to tell you what to believe or who to vote for. It is a way to examine your own political instincts, confront the trade-offs behind them, and understand where they sit within Nigeria's political traditions.
The framework is an argument, not a discovery. The methodology is public so you can examine it, challenge it, and decide for yourself where it gets things wrong.
Who made it
I'm Goziem, a Nigerian development economist based in Lagos. I like building things that help people understand the world a little better and do something with that understanding.
I also write and make music.
I built If Na You independently.