When the history of this country is written, it will be seen that one of the worst electoral decisions ever made by the citizens of this country was the mistake of 2015. And one of those who played the ignoble role of misleading Nigerians into making that infamous decision is Chief Olusegun Obasanjo alias OBJ. Admittedly, he regretted his action but if he was circumspect as he should given his age and experience and if he was not consumed by hatred and allowed his ego to becloud his reasoning, he would not have been involved in that national blunder. And now that the 2023 general election is around the corner, OBJ is at it again, doing what he is notorious for—grandstanding, pretending to have the solution to the nation’s problems. Recently, he had been quoted severally in the press dictating to Nigerians whom to vote and whom not to vote and I think that that is hypocritical of him given his antecedents. He talks and acts like the inerrant emperor admonishing his subjects. I think it is an affront on Nigerians for the likes of OBJ to come to sermonize about who should go for the Presidency after the atrocities he committed in his time and after misleading the nation in 2015.

Clearly, OBJ should be told in clear terms to come down from his moral high horse for obviously he has no moral right to tell Nigerians who should lead them. OBJ was never a good leader and apparently does not know a good leader. For recommending Buhari whom he had worked with for many years to lead Nigerians and rejecting Jonathan just to spite him for refusing to be his puppet means that OBJ has false notion of leadership. He said that he preferred Buhari to come and jail him rather than for Jonathan to continue to govern the country.

We know that during his time he established PENCOM, Civil Defense Corp, authorized Banking Consolidation, due process, debt payment and the GSM project which was a work in progress inherited from the previous administrations. But, the evils of Obasanjo’s regime far outweighed his fabled performance. It is also public knowledge that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and ICPC which he established were not necessarily to fight corruption but to fight perceived political enemies.

He was also quoted as saying that he did not endorse any Igbo aspirant for the office of the President. I would have been surprised if he did because he never would recommend good people. Of course, Igbo aspirants do not need his permission or approval to contest for the office of the Presidency.

Ndigbo would not need his endorsement. I must remind OBJ that Nigeria has not recovered from the error of the endorsement he made in 2015. I must also remind OBJ that the modicum of achievement he recorded when he was the President between 1999 and 2007 was as a result of the ingenuity of the few Igbo people—Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Chukwuma Soludo, Dora Akunyili, Oby Ezekwesili, Frank Nwaeke (Jr), Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke… in his cabinet.
Chief Obasanjo was obscenely vengeful and revanchist while he presided over the affairs of the country. Anyone who did agree with his selfish desires is corrupt and must be hounded at all costs. He tried to malign the person of Atiku Abubakar with unsubstantiated allegations of corruption. To OBJ Atiku’s political ambition must be truncated because Atiku stood against his inordinate ambition to perpetuate himself in office. Yes, Atiku is corrupt because OBJ had to cringe and grovel at Atiku’s feet to get the party’s nod for his second tenure. Atiku must be punished because OBJ is a general for if you capture a general and spare him, he will turn back to haunt you. OBJ is a self-centered old codger who would use a ladder and destroy it to prevent others from using it. He destroyed Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the platform he used to get power. He was neither a founding member of the party nor a financier of the party. The party was formed by Alex Ekwueme’s G34 and Atiku Abubakar-led PDM when OBJ was in prison serving life sentence for treasonable felony. The cult of generals brought him out from prison and foists him on the party. And soon after he became president, he began to terrorize the founding fathers of the party. People like Chuba Okadigbo, Audu Ogbe and many others were forced out of the party and many died in controversial circumstances.

Again, OBJ was quoted as saying that some of the aspirants jostling for the office of the president in 2023 deserve to be in jail. Yes, I agree with him but I must also add unequivocally that if there is anybody that should be in jail in this country right now, it is OBJ himself. In a civilized environment where people are held accountable for their actions, Obasanjo should be in jail for abuse of office and the innumerable infractions and atrocities he committed while in power as the president of Nigeria between 1999 and 2007. A cursory peep into our political history will show that all the myriads of problems confronting the nation at present had their root in OBJ’s regime.

Before OBJ every Nigeria is a thief. He is the one that is righteous; the only leader without blemish. And yet under him the worst corrupt cases were recorded in Nigeria. Even though he pretended to fight corruption during his regime it was obvious that his government was the most corrupt regime in the history of Nigeria. Under OBJ’s watch Transparency International (TI) and other observers rated Nigeria as the number one corrupt country in the world. OBJ supervised a dubious privatization program wherein scores of national assets were appropriated by him, his kinsmen and his acolytes and the proceeds from the privatization exercise were not properly accounted for. When the National Assembly investigated the activities of the Ministry of Power (just one ministry out of the many MDAs) under OBJ it was discovered that a humongous sum of ($16) billion was frittered away and yet all Nigeria got in his eight years reign was darkness. Obasanjo it was who introduced the fuel subsidy scam after he sold our refineries and licensed his cronies to start the importation of fuel. We know that it is inverse economic logic to export crude oil and then go to import the refined product at the international market and then fraudulently pay the price differential as subsidy to the importers. Today, Nigeria is stuck with the fuel subsidy thing because some benefit from the fraud associated with it and trillions of tax payers money—an amount that would have been enough to fix our refineries and build many more refineries is wasted on importation of fuel and payment of fuel subsidies.

Clearly, Obasanjo’s regime corruption scandal is quite unprecedented. The Abacha’s loot which was recovered was alleged to be diverted. We also have the $182 million Halliburton bribe scandal, the PDTF fraud scandal, the ecological funds scandal, the Police Equipment Funds scandal, the National Identity Card fraud. Also, OBJ defrauded Nigerians and many corporate entities by making them donate to his personal library project. Obasanjo used state power to fight enemies and commit unpardonable economic sabotage against the country. He deported Vaswani brothers and seized Ibeto cement for no reason other than to promote the business where it was alleged that he had vested interest. So, while he was auctioning off our national assets in the name of privatization, ostensibly to encourage efficiency and competitiveness, he was creating private monopolies. For political reasons he ban Orji Uzor Kalu’s Slok Airline which later became the official carrier in Gambia and for the same reason he shot down Jim Nwobodo’s Savanna Bank, SGBN, Intels throwing thousands of Nigerians into labor market. Nearly everything he did while in office was smeared with fraud and irregularities. The National Census he conducted in 2005 was marred with irregularities, controversies and rigging. The general elections of 2003 and 2007 that he conducted were worst rigged elections in Nigeria. Even the artificial satellite that he launched into space collapsed.

OBJ was never a democrat because he does not believe in the ideals of Democracy and the rule of law. He does not believe in dialogue. He believes in command and control. That was why he said politics is a do-or-die affair. He elevated the culture of impunity and “gangsterism” in our national politics as touts and renegades were empowered to unleash mayhem in the polity. There were forced impeachments, and undue interference in the affairs of the National assembly. Court orders were flouted with impunity. Obasanjo regime was an era of selection and imposition against the will of the people. All election conducted during OBJ’s regime were flagrantly rigged. In Anambra State, a seating governor, Dr. Chris Ngige was abducted by a team of policemen led by one AIG Ralph Ige but nobody was queried or punished for that heinous act because the perpetrators had the backing of the powers that be. I could recall that Prof. Chinua Achebe rejected the National honor awarded to him by OBJ in protest against OBJ’s romance with political renegades that had unleashed mayhem in the state with the sinister motive of instigating a state of emergency in the state in order to unseat the governor for refusing them access to the state allocations.

There was a high level insecurity under OBJ. Unresolved high-profile murder such as never happened before in the country took place under his watch. Senator Chuba Okadigbo died when security operatives pumped canisters of tear gas on him while in a political rally. Chief Bola Ige a serving minister was murdered in cold blood in his official residence and so was Funsho William the strong man of Lagos politics. Harry Marshal, Aminisoari Dikibo, Barnabas Igwe and his wife, Abigail Igwe were among the persons assassinated during OBJ’s reign. Furthermore, under OBJ the international community declared our airspace unsafe as Nigeria recorded the worst cases of aviation disaster.

Nigerians cannot forget in a hurry the trauma of the Sosoliso, bellview Dana airline, military plane crashes that rocked the nation then. And many have not stopped wondering why the crashes stopped after he stepped down from office.

It is not out of place to state that just as OBJ is poor in people management, he is also very poor crisis management for most of the crisis rocking the nation today emanated from his poor response to issues. His blunt refusal to pay the oil producing states the 13% statutory allocation early in his regime triggered the agitation for resource control. And OBJ’s response was the use of force to suppress the agitation leading to the invasion and destruction of Odi a city in Bayelsa State. This led to the formation of many militants groups that went underground doing illegal oil bunkering and kidnapping of oil workers for ransom in order to fund their operations. And soon after, many jobless and criminal-minded youths joined in the business of kidnapping. Thus, OBJ was responsible for the scourge of kidnapping plaguing the nation today.

OBJ’s official high-handedness and divisive tendencies instigated the resurgence of ethnic militias like OPC, MASSOB, Egbesu And if OBJ was decisive about the sharia movement blowing from the North we may not have had the menace of Bokoharam today. And if he had listened and addressed the concerns of MASSOB there probably wouldn’t have been Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The killing of hapless citizens in Odi, the killings at Zakibiam in Benue State and the killings of MASSOB activists at Okigwe by soldiers under OBJ’s watch were worse than war crime and should be a case to be referred ICC.

Perhaps the most unpatriotic and controversial decision of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo during his tenure as president was the ceding of Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroun following the judgment of International Court of Justice at Hague. It was hard to believe that OBJ who was notorious for flouting court orders hurriedly obeyed the judgment of the international court, excising a section of the country without the knowledge of Nigerians and the approval of the National Assembly. Observers believed that he did that selfishly to get international support for his failed Third-term agenda and perhaps to get the Nobel Prize for peace.

Without doubt, Nigeria has been in the dark for too long because we don’t seem to hold those who claim to be leaders accountable for their action. Thus, I am trying to put this together for those that didn’t know what happened in OBJ time to know so that we will not repeat the mistake of 2015. We must critically examine the antecedents, the conducts and values of those aspiring to lead us. We must investigate and interrogate issues so that we will stop the recycling of outmoded self-seeking politicians in our country.

As the 2023 general election beckons, we must be wary of distractions for Nigeria may not survive another electoral blunder.

Irogboli, An economist, public policy analyst and novelist can be reached via goziei@yahoo.com

Dear Sir,

I’m writing this piece to you on behalf of your fellow citizens-cum-statesmen. It was awe and prideful to us, by having one of ours on the third highest echelon of the country.

It’s a well known culture of Nigeria’s politics to allocate a political office based on region, due to geopolitical and zoning classification. when it comes to our turn, Northeast, Yobe state bridges the gap by producing a productive citizen to takeover the seat (as assumed), despite the tarnishes on your picture with revealed to; power-hounding, rubber stamping and political clown(ness), we madly goes blind and dumb in supporting you, thought that if opportunity is given to you, you will serve the interest and mandate of the whole state. But we the unfolding of things, you metamorphosed to state representing senator. And Unfortunately, our dream is proved wrong by the man we puts ourbelieved in.

Yes! We knows that; your primary assignments as an elected lawmaker is the priority of your constituency. But this was prior becoming Senate President.

Since your assumption of office, the most tremendous focus of yours is the inclination of federal government capital project to your deserted villages. This would obviously concured if we look intensively into the locations of National Airport in Wachakal, a village with zero economic productivity and about 400km far from the state capital city, Damaturu.

Recently, the 9th senate under your leadership passed a bill, proposed by committee on health, extolling the federal government to create eighteen Federal Universities of Medical Sciences and Biomedical Technology, across the six geopolitical zone. Where thy persist and proposed that the one must be situated at Yobe north, Gashua (your constituency) This is welcoming elation and my problem is not with the location but your greedy and discriminative notion by which you proposes that, the location of the institution must be same with Federal University Gashua, tandem. How can a two-cum-only federal universities be in the: same state, same local government, and same town?
Is Gashua the most educational rigour in Yobe state? Is Gashua the population giant of the state?

Ipso-factor, there are so many local government that if channelled this privilege to, would hone their economic growth and at last it would served the purpose behind the creation; it may produced so many young talents and deft medical personnel that might put their acquired knowledge into practice and compete to the world on relevant research and medical education. And these qualities are collectively found in Yobe state centre of state commerce and economy; Potiskum.

Thank you

Ali Tijjani Hassan

The month of Ramadan is known for worship. Lazy Muslims and worshippers, like this writer, try their utmost to make up for what they had failed to do of worship in the previous months of the year. Lackadaisical Muslims endeavor to devout their precious time to worship in this once-in-a-year month to establish an affinity between themselves and their Creator (Allah). Miserly Muslims discomfort themselves to be generous by virtue of this noble month. Bad neighbors pretend to be good due to Ramadan, for Ramadan frowns at bad temperament.

It was reported that the Prophet—himself an epitome of generosity—intensifies his generosity in the month of Ramadan beyond imagination. O Allah, have mercy on the Prophet (SAW). If all Muslims would emulate his generosity in this month, it is enough to wipe out poverty from our midst. Though many are very generous (may Allah increase their wealth and wellbeing), yet many who should spend more spend less—below expectation—due to their chronically incurable tightfistedness. May Allah protect us from miserliness (Ameen).

Nevertheless, there is one important act of worship in this month (if not the most important). That is the recitation of the Qur’an. Those who are not literate enough to recite the Qur’an but could read other books written in other languages should mourn themselves. It is quite unfortunate. The stark illiterates could be excused; perhaps they live in rural communities and do not have access to any form of learning and education that makes reading skill and ability possible. What excuse does a literate in other literacies but illiterate when it comes to the Qur’an make to Allah?

Reciting the Qur’an is prioritized in this noble month because it was revealed therein. Our righteous predecessors (RA)—and the later Muslims who trod their paths—would jettison or postpone virtually every other thing to focus on the Qur’an in this month. They would read it, memorize it, and rehearse it. They would teach it, lead prayer with it, and interpret it to a blessed audience more than ever in this blessed month.

But sad! It is a month where majority of Muslim population (our women) waste away in our kitchens. Doing what? Cooking. Though, they may not be blamed for it, our demands for assorted delicacies might be the reason why they over stay in the kitchen; this prevents them from being worshippers but cooks in Ramadan. Many believe Ramadan is the month of food—eating and drinking and merrymaking. Thus, what was missed during the day of foods and drinks must be exaggeratedly compensated for after Maghrib as if they were missed prayers which must be made up.

We expect our wives, mothers, sisters, daughters, nieces, and aunts to prepare varieties of foods and drinks without considering how time consuming these things are. These great cooks, in some homes, start cooking as early as 2:00 PM for an Iftar that will be observed at around 7:00PM. What a waste of time! They would also wake up as early as 2:00 AM to prepare Sahur (pre-dawn meal) which will be taken around 5:00 AM. This is torturous! They, by default, become professional cooks but bad worshippers and poor reciters in Ramadan when the latter should be the priority.

Yet some of these great women are sole bread winners or co-bread providers in their homes. In addition, many of them are nursing mothers and burden carriers (pregnant). House chores are additional herculean tasks for them. And here is a man in Ibadan who reportedly beat his pregnant wife, as if in a wrestling ring, for close to 30 minutes before she narrowly escaped. Her offence!? She did not prepare Sahur on time. Is this callousness or foolishness or both?

This is ungodly, un-Qur’anic, un-Islamic, un-Sunnatic, un-Prophetic, and un-Ramadan. The Prophet, or any good Muslim for that matter, would rather assist the wife to get the meals prepared on time. But the ignorant husband turned his wife to a punching bag in the name of worshipping Allah. Could ignorance—as a disease—be more killing than the ignorance of religion?

Can’t we control our appetite for rice, beans, yam, plantain, potato (and its chips), pap, lettuce, fried meat, fish, egg—and their cooked version— all in a single meal for Iftar so that the womenfolk can have some time for the Qur’an and other forms of worship? Can we just spare them some time to devout to Allah? Though some women too like these stresses. Even when you try to persuade them to minimize time spent in kitchens so that they can have time for worship, their reactions seem to make one think that their love for kitchen is more than their love for Allah.

e that as it may, men should learn how to assist women in this month of Ramadan to afford them (women) the opportunity to maximize rewards through other acts of worship (especially recitation of the Qur’an). This will be in line with the Prophet’s habit of assisting his wives as reported by ‘Aisha (RA).

But due to our ignorance of the din (religion) or lackadaisicalness or/and egocentrism which is best expressed in our misogynistic tendency, we make our women bad worshippers in the month of Ramadan when worships are mostly accepted. We deny them recitation of the Qur’an when its rewards are dished out in manifolds. They struggle to catch up with the Taraawih which is one of the visible symbols of Ramadan.

Women! Please be good worshipers in this month. Limit your relationship with the kitchens. Recite the Qur’an as much as possible. Be as generous as generosity.

Men! Let’s do same and also learn to appreciate them. Beating wife for late Sahur is condemnable and primitive. May Allah appreciate our efforts, accepts our ibaadaat, forgive our sins and admit us into Paradise (Ameen).

Salaudeen can be reached via salahuddeenabdulkadir@gmail.com

Nigeria is a peculiar country; Good People, Great Nation. Nigeria is a country of many nations, that have come to become one country; either by fate, an act of God or by conspiracy. The peoples are peculiar, so is the politics and its undercurrents. Nigeria operates a Presidential Federalism, where the Constitution mandates the conduct of presidential elections by the Electoral commission, every four years, to usher in another dispensation.

The Presidential system of Government was introduced to the Nigerian political atmosphere in 1979 (the 2nd Republic). Prior to that, we operated the Parliamentary system of Government, where there was the Head of State; performing real executive functions and the day to day administration of government, and the Head of Government; performing ceremonial functions. In the Parliamentary, the Prime Minister would emerge from the leadership of the party with the most seats in Parliament. In effect, the leader of the party with the most seats in Parliament, becomes the Prime Minister. In the 1st Republic, Late Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was the Prime Minister (the Head of Government) and the Late Nnamdi Azikwe was the President (the Head of State).

It is noteworthy that from the advent of the 2nd Republic where the Presidential system was adopted, the manner in which the Nation’s Presidents emerged, seem to have followed nearly the same pattern. It’s been an admixture of fate, coincidences and may be, “conspiracies”. In 1979, the late Alhaji Shehu Shagari had the intention of running for the Senate, before the Presidential fortune caught up with him and he gained the support of then General Olusegun Obasanjo and was returned elected as President. The highly revered late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, SAN had long nursed the Presidential ambition, but lost the election to Late Shagari. The said election was even challenged at the Federal Court of Appeal and that challenge was eventually dismissed at the Supreme Court.

Infact, the litigation that followed that election, as instituted by the late sage and statesman, was fraught on the non-satisfaction of Section 34 A(i)(c)(ii) of the then Electoral Decree of 1977. Chief Awolowo argued that Alhaji Shagari did not win up to one quarter of the votes cast in two thirds of all the States of the Federation. The late Chief Richard Akinjide,SAN,(Shagari’s counsel), deployed his legal industry and dexterity and was of the view that once an issue has been submitted to the court, it becomes an issue for legal interpretation and that “two-third was no longer an issue of Mathematics, but an issue of Law”. The Supreme Court dismissed the challenge to that election and that terminated that electoral contest.

Shagari was overthrown by then General Muhammadu Buhari in December, 1983 and the next time we had a Presidential election was in 1993.

“MKO, Kingibe, SDP, Action; Abiola, Abiola, Abiola, Progress!!!… I tire for this country; I tire for life oh”. Only the 90’s babies would remember this. Those were the lyrics of the Late Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola and SDP campaign song for the 1993 Presidential contest. The then Military Government had lifted the ban on political activities and a Presidential election was to hold in 1993 (the 3rd Republic). The Late MKO Abiola was a household name and was very popular and widely accepted by Nigerians across ethnic nationalities. Infact, he beat his main rival, the Late Alhaji Bashir Tofa even in Kano, his home state which is a rare feat, considering how Nigerians typically vote. MKO is widely believed to have won that election which was eventually annulled by then General Ibrahim Babangida-Led Military Government and an interim Head of State, Late Ernest Shonekan (a successful business man who became the Chairman/Managing Director of UAC, having risen through the ranks to become the number one man of the largest African controlled company in Sub-Saharan Africa) was appointed. He served for about 4 months before Late General Sani Abacha took the reins of power as Military Head of State up until his demise in 1998.

His successor, Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar, conceived the idea of a transition to democracy, which was successful at the election of President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999; ushering in the 4th Republic.

Following the post 1993 struggle, it became a national consensus that the Presidency of Nigeria be zoned to the South Western Yoruba speaking part of the country. The then General Olusegun Obasanjo, had been a political prisoner of the Abacha military junta. The Presidential fortune once again came to play in favour of Obasanjo. He was not only released by Gen Abubakar, he was also granted a state pardon and massively supported to win the 1999 Presidential elections. Towards the end of the Obasanjo Presidency, he threw his weight behind the then Governor Umaru Musa Yar’Adua of Katsina state, who never really nursed that ambition.

Unfortunately, our dear nation lost a civil and civilized democrat and a refined gentleman to the cold hands of death in May, 2010. This led to the accidental emergence of Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, who served and was also returned elected in 2011 General Elections. He was already an incumbent. As a matter of fact, the ascension of Former President Jonathan has been described to have been “against the run of play”.

It is noteworthy that in all the Presidential Elections from 2003-2011, General Buhari had consistently contested and sought the exalted office, under different political platforms and he kept losing. In fact, after the 2011 round of elections, he made up his mind not to run again. However, life had other plans for him. Buhari’s quest for the Presidency which was reduced to a mirage, turned out a miracle. The grand plot of this success was facilitated by the highly revered political master strategist, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu who was referred to by the Financial Times, sometime in 2015, as the Machiavelli of Nigerian politics. He had been the leader of the opposition movement in Nigeria from the days of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) struggle, up until 2015 when he was able to facilitate a handshake across the “Niger Area”, to ensure the first victory for the opposition in a Presidential election after a successful merger of the legacy political parties that formed the All Progressives Congress (APC). This merger threw up General Muhammadu Buhari as the candidate of the party, at a convention held in Lagos in December, 2014. The victory of Buhari at the polls would not have been possible, but for the political astuteness and doggedness of the likes of Asiwaju.

President Muhammadu Buhari would be rounding up his 2nd term as President in 2023 and Nigerians would have the privilege of electing another President in the same year. One thing that is clear is that the emergence of the democratically elected Presidents that have held sway since 1979, could not necessarily be said to have been taken for granted, that those individuals would emerge. This is not to say that those individuals were neophytes in the political firmament, however, their emergence, has been largely laced with some moisture of fate or coincidences. The historian in me tells me that history could find a way of repeating itself in 2023, and that it’s too early to call, who becomes the next President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Could there be a dark horse? Are we in for a surprise? Would there be a renaissance of fate? “Question wey no get answer”

Olatubora is a legal practitioner and a public affairs analyst, and can be reached via ayodejiolatubora@gmail.com

The month of Ramadan is one of the months in the Islamic calendar respected and valued by Muslims, they fasted the whole month and other acts of worship like giving out charity, expressions of kindness to others, engaging in the recitation of the glorious Qur’an, among others for the achievement of the peace and blessings of Allah.

Islamic scholars preach from the glorious Quran, Hadith of the prophet Muhammad rosulullah (SAW), and words of the salafs (may Allah be pleased with them all) on the oneness of Allah, how to gain the blessings and abstained from what we are avoid from.

Islamic scholars preached orphans are needed to be assisted with all daily requirements for them to also feel the world is habitable to them in absence of their parents in the aspect of care and concern and also pray for the Mercy of Allah in all endeavors, forgiveness for our sins, protections from evildoers and satisfaction from His blessings.

The wealthy ones assist others with their wealth by providing foodstuff, prepared food, and shelter for them to also feel differently from another month, the less privileged strive to give their quarter for them to be among those that will be favored by the owner of the universe.

These have given avenues for politicians to the campaign by giving these citizens toy-like items to carve their interests within the tissues of their hearts. These have been the strategies used by Nigerian politicians in their political shifting which had added more wrongly representation of the so-called democracies demonstration.

In Nigeria, democracies are newly arranged to provide freedoms of expression, religion, association, and like, Nigerians used these new democratic freedoms obverse as a justification for advancing separatist sentiments, including the politicians and other potentially destabilizing ideologies.

This has been the derive result expected from the citizens of the various gift given out, in other to pay back with their vote and leave them for another year again before they will need them again.

it was widely recognized that the new democratic arrangement would not succeed unless the government made meaningful efforts to combat corruption which is unable to be defeated update rather increase at a very high rate.

This politicization of Islamic activities has undermined the government’s national integration efforts and proven to be detrimental to the process of democratization and political development in the country.

Taking a look at Nigeria’s experiences, one has good reason to wonder whether the Nigerian condition is amenable to Western-style consensual political arrangements. and the way Nigeria plays its political games.

However the system was brought to them and tested models of governance without considering the ethics of nations, Nigeria must devise a system more appropriate to the country’s ethnic circumstances if it is to endure. The response depends on a mutual dialogue between the two major religions in the country and advice from the traditional leaders.

Taufeeq. MNIM, MNSAP, A researcher, A data analyst, Animal production by professional, A poet, and freelance writer.