What keeps our non-provident kind of democracy going is the collective poverty of our desires. Our willingness to allow the ‘few’ ride roughshod over the ‘many’

Our country has been sabotaged from the inside and we’ve hailed vandals as heroes

Last week, I discussed the concept and impact of godfatherism in Nigerian politics as it relates to the internal democracy of political parties. I outlined the origin of godfatherism with emphasis on how the major political leaders of the first political republic were interested more in the performance of their protégés rather than whatever pecuniary gains their support for the said protégés would otherwise have attracted to them. Last week in particular, I linked the advent of godfatherism as we know it to questions relating to the formation,structure and funding of political parties.

Medical doctors lost the right to leadership of the medical team in Nigeria when they became selfish and self-centered

Buhari just could not condemn Abacha or he would be indicting himself, condemning his own legacy of corruption through the PTF