Elections and inclusive development in Nigeria

I thank the Delegation of the European Unionto Nigeria, the ECOWAS Commission, and my friends at the Abuja School of Social and Political Thought, for inviting me to participate in the reflections you have arranged on this occasion. I have been actively engaged in public discourse, in social commentary, and in advocacy for good leadership and democratic governance in Nigeria since the year 1990. In the course of these thirty-six years I have watched seven general elections come and go, each one preceded by the same anxiety, attended by the same malpractice, and followed by the same disillusionment. Two years ago I presented a paper before the Abuja School on “Leadership Debauchery and Ou...