In 2021, which is exactly twenty-two years after democracy and partisan politics was reintroduced in Nigeria, political parties in Nigeria still lack internal functional mechanisms and certain rudiments of a working system. Partisan politics is still a do or die, fraught with confusing court injunctions, hooliganism, and brigandage. Political parties are still largely made up of men who can do anything for power; people who do not care one bit, about how to get the...

I have now taken a closer and more subjective view on the current crisis rocking the All Progressives Grand Alliance –APGA. And although I have been very critical of the way the party has been going about without due recourse to various interests within the party to harmonize and aggregate the same, it, however, remains the truth that APGA must not be destroyed by both the leadership and those that are aggrieved in the party....

Basic interpretation of the quintessence of a democratic government is that it is a government that is sanctioned by the people; one which goes about in performance of its duties, as the people pleases. In other words, a democracy is a government that is literally owned by citizens, within the territory of which the government exerts authority. When we put this into perspective with regards to Nigeria’s own brand of democracy, what we see is...