JOE WILLIAM-OBI argues that politics must be redesigned to repel and punish profiteers in order to attract patriots
Nigeria does not suffer from a shortage of elections; it suffers from a shortage of electoral finality. In theory, democracy in Nigeria is in the hands of the voters. In practice, Nigerian elections are routinely concluded by judges- months, sometimes years, after ballots have been cast. In that legal interim, the will of millions of Nigerians is suspended in legal limbo, while courtrooms, not polling units, become the true battlegrounds of power. This is not democracy.