By May 29, 2017 The return to democracy will be 18yrs in Nigeria.

With reference to the malady democracy’ has caused nigerians, and being so costly and toxic to the body politic, it is no surprise that many Nigerians have begun to question their loyalty to the received wisdom that democracy is superior to its alternatives.

For many Nigerians democracy has failed. It has failed to live up to its publicised benefits – tangible and intangible. So glaring is this failure and so painful are the betrayals of Africa’s ‘democrats’ that ten thousand Nigerians recently poured into the streets of Niamey to rally in support of the new military regime there.

Westerners may be scrambling to comprehend this dramatic reversal of public opinion from a craving for a democratic overthrow of a military dictatorship eleven years ago to an enthusiastic embrace of a military overthrow of a ‘democratic’ regime today.

But this is something that people in neighbouring Nigeria can explain and understand. The exuberant Nigerians at the rally were not expressing a preference for military autocracy. They were voicing their disillusionment with a failed democracy. Nigeria’s democratic setbacks may not yet entitle us to reject democracy altogether or to be receptive to military rule.

But we are at a crossroads, and if we continue with this charade, a Niger-like scenario of democratic disillusionment may be in the horizon.

What is your own Opinion?

I don't hv time for imagination and delusions.
Discussing and arguing on things that will not yield anything.