By Jideofor Chukwuemeka
After several years of trials with the democratic order without significant progress in all indices of development, Nigeria is yet at another trajectory. Another general election is around the corner. And the kind of leadership choices the electorate makes will determine whether the country will mark a sharp departure from its sordid past or continue with a dismal and decadent order that is sliding to the brink.
Though there appears
a wide gamut of consensus that the coming elections yet provide a defining opportunity
for this country to get its acts right, those who hitherto profited from the
old order seem not keen in having that be.
Before the emergence of the presidential candidates of the political parties, issues of competence in grappling with the worsening economic situation and power rotation had dominated political discourse.
