Chidi Amuta has already appraised the Opposition and founded it wanting. He has concluded that “Among the contending parties that are not in power, a consensus on strategy is far as outer space. Blinded by narrow endangered herd mentality, the personal interests and myopic ambitions of their principals, each party that has control of one state or two clutches to its little miserable corner of the political crumb like a life vest.

Here then is a seminal doctrine of democratic change that needs to be explored further if only to understand the constipation that may be going on in PDP. The author is none other than the irrespessible Ojo Maduekwe, former Secretary of the PDP and current Foreign Affairs Minister”.

If the above is the thesis of Amuta’s essay, can that essay be read as the warning of a watchman? Can Amuta be read as a message to one member of the political class who by past conduct can understand the message and transmit it to the PDP leadership? Such interpretation of the essay is supported by Amuta’s description of the Nigerian political situation and of the aptitude of Ojo Maduekwe whom Amuta presents in these words.

What Chinua Achebe was describing as the fate of Nigeria was not pre-colonial or colonial or post-colonial politics but the transitional politics where all want to be the next post-colonial sovereigns.

This is the historical conjectural approach. The result of adopting this method of analysis would be an explanation of development failures blamed on the military. There are, however, problems with this approach. The first is that military rule depended on the civil service, the judiciary, the private sector and civilian ministers who enabled the military to govern.