Conspiracy of Democracy in Nigeria

Nigeria is in the grip of a leadership crisis, which has arisen from its failed electoral processes through which our leaders attained positions of authority. In these failed electoral processes, the so-called leaders who emerged have become like gods, refusing to be accountable to the Nigerian people as they engage in various forms of financial misconduct. This has fostered bad governance and leadership crises that have left the country in a state of quagmire. This book, The Conspiracy of Democracy in Nigeria , examines the various stages and processes of the 2023 General Election in Nigeria. It explores the conduct of the election and the role played by certain individuals among Nigerian citizens, the INEC, and the Judiciary, all supposed to preserve democracy in Nigeria, yet deceived innocent Nigerians in plain sight. The various stages of the election were observed, including the outcomes of election petitions from the tribunals and the citizens reactions at each phase of the electoral process. At every stage, it was emphasised how the civic rights of Nigerian citizens to choose their leaders were undermined by the very institutions of democracy, surrendering power to political actors and thereby defeating the purpose of democratic elections in Nigeria. Like an Igbo adage which says, a child whose father sent on an errand to steal from the neighbourhood, uses his leg to break the door , the legal precedent set by the Tribunals from the 2023 General Election petitions led to a bizarre outcome during the off-cycle elections in Nigeria, held in certain States and constituencies after the General Election, where what happened in the supposed election cannot be described as a democratic process. The judicial system, through the legal precedent set, that led to those outcomes of the election petitions, armed the political gladiators, stripping citizens of their power to elect their leaders by establishing an unconstitutional judicial electoral college where Justices select the leaders for the people. In all these political charades we see in Nigeria today, Nigerians must recognise that political power still belongs to the people, not the Judiciary, or political gladiators. Through the active participation of Nigerian citizens in elections and their processes, we can effect positive change in the Nigerian political trajectory and foster the desired path of growth, which will bring sanity to governance and the democratic system in Nigeria.