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Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have left ECOWAS, the regional bloc that sanctioned them after military officers seized power in each. In this Q&A, Crisis Group expert Nnamdi Obasi assesses the import of these events for West Africa’s security architecture and Nigeria’s influence therein.
Nigeria’s democracy is fraudulent, it’s judiciary reprobate (unable to tell right from wrong) and it’s foundational creed is lies. To sustain a Tinubu presidency, every academic certificate from primary school to national service has been devalued. Basic intelligence from common sense to the lofty constitution is annulled and we find ourselves in the tortured absurdity that the courts have ruled that rules don’t matter in an existential threat to themselves.
The implication of improved turnout and the combined force of youthful newly registered voters may be the game changer in the elections.
Another electoral suicide is on the pipeline and ready to explode with a magnitude of casualties. For many decades, people with questionable characters have been the ones piloting the affairs of Nigeria as well as controlling the nation’s resources. They have, as a result, been seen as demigods who are untouchable. A country where a drug baron is seen as the “messiah” to rescue the contraption called Nigeria with over 200 million people is on the verge of witnessing another disaster that will last for a decade and even beyond.