Nigeria’s Gutter Democracy – Twenty-Six Years After

Yesterday, 29th May marked two years of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s presidency. It was also exactly twenty-six years since the military handed over power to their civilian colleagues.That a nation is under civil rule, has parliaments, the judiciary, operates multiparty politics, and periodically conducts elections, does not necessary make it is a democracy. For democracy is the negation of all monopoly of power; the enthronement of people in the affairs of the state and society; the…