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‘Nigeria’s Oppressive Majority Rule And The Urgency For Power Rotation In A Consensus Democracy’: By Akeem Awere.

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    One of the existential threats to Nigeria’s statehood despite its sixty-three-year status as a democratic republic is the absence of Political justice. That might sound somewhat assertive as an opening statement to a very sensitive topic considered by many Nigerian politicians as an elephant in the room. Yet, I make no bones about it […]

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Is Nigeria Sliding Towards a One-Party State?

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Prof Mike Ozekhome, SAN, CON, OFR. INTRODUCTION “I like the noise of democracy.” James Buchanan Jr. The lie that Nigeria is operating a multi-party system of politics or government, with a whopping 18 legally registered political parties (see: INEC, 2023), is daily being perforated by the actual practice of politics (realpolitik, as the Germans call […]

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