Leadership Decline and 2019 Presidential Election
Rejecting the result of the 2019 presidential election, Alh. Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the PDP, declared that “in my democratic struggles for the past three decades, I have never seen our democracy so debased as it was on Saturday, February 23, 2019. 2007 was a challenge, but President Yar’Adua was remorseful. In 2019, it is sad to see those who trampled on democracy thumping their noses down on the Nigerian people.”
As students of history, politics and leadership, one cannot but ask the question; are we really talking about the same 2019 Nigerian presidential election? If it is, could Alh. Atiku’s claim really be a fair assessment of the election? This is hardly the case. For instance, YIAGA Africa, one of the civil society networks that monitored the election, noted that “over...
