As Nigerians Decide…
The people of my dearest country, Nigeria, will be going to the polls to elect their representatives for another four years in a couple of days. There is every cause to cheer the very fact of a seamless transition since 1999. There has been a semblance of representation, which suggests that legitimacy emanates from the people, even if the reality contradicts.
The observance of basic tenets of democratic principle, which finds expression in the exercise of the right to choose elected representatives, periodically by the people, however curtailed or manipulated, is sufficient tonic for the sustenance of interest in the process as practised in Nigeria. Of more compelling significance are the historical interventions of the conscious layer of the society at very crucial moments in rece...
