Festering insecurity and Tinubu’s re-election bid

From Fred Itua , Abuja
A dispassionate reading of Nigeria’s democratic record since the restoration of civilian governance in 1999 points to one structural variable above all others as the ultimate arbiter of executive survival. It is not economic stewardship, the tenacity of institutional corruption or the perennial contest over fiscal federalism and resource allocation. It is the systemic and progressive degradation of internal security.
From the organised armed militancy of the Niger Delta under President Olusegun Obasanjo, through the rapid territorial metastasis of the Boko Haram insurgency under President Goodluck Jonathan, to the violent convergence of rural banditry, mass ab...