If na you,
wetin you go do?
Each square is one of your answers. What the pattern says comes at the end.
Your twenty-one answers
Change any of them and your reading changes with it.
Your cloth, woven from your answers. Each band is one of the seven arguments Nigeria keeps having.
Moments in Nigeria's history that pointed the same way as one of your answers. An echo on one question, not a likeness.
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 questions about how Nigeria should be governed. Here is where the people asking for your vote on 16 January stand on the same questions.
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.
Who is asking
for your vote?
Find your ward or local government. Your whole ballot appears, from President down to your State Assembly seat.
Every name, age and qualification here is as INEC published it in the final lists of candidates for the 2027 elections. Seats are matched to local governments using INEC’s Information Kit; ward locations come from an open dataset and are approximate. Nothing you search for leaves this device.
The President’s Desk
You haven’t even settled into your office. Your Chief of Staff is already at the door.
Every morning, Nigeria comes to your desk. Every decision follows you out of the room.
On your desk
Something unexpected always comes up.
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.