The height of Nigeria’s leadership catastrophe is found on the ugly high horse of outgoing elected officials who presuppose to feel the people’s pulse by choosing their successors. Experience has shown that they do this not to continue any legacy of development, which is mostly lacking anyway, but to protect their loot and larceny from being detected.
The momentous 2027 general elections draw closer by the day, and Nigerians are feeling the heat already. The elections are proving disruptive, but not in the good way democracy is meant to be disruptive and destructive of the tendencies of a people to dictatorship.
For example, for months now, as insecurity has soared around the country, pulling entire communities and families into its deadly vortex, a failing government has linked insecurity to the efforts of its political opponent to take over power. It is also an open secret that in Nigeria, once the winds of elections begin to blow, governance winds down, replaced by a grind of incompetence and ineptitude.
This deadly disease of inept public officers choosing their successors is not new at all. In fact, Nigerians have watched with glee in the past as such attempts have provided spectacular fallouts. However, nothing makes it less troubling.
