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Democracy is often eulogized and embellished as a one-stop solution for all human needs, vis-a-vis the citizen’s relationship with the State and vice versa. Perhaps, this is why even known despots and pretentious liberals often hide under the open guise of protecting Democracy and its principles, to embark on their diabolic partisanship to achieve selfish desires against the wishes of the rest of the pauperised citizenry.
In Nigeria where the exception has become the rule, political actors thrive in disorder, while they pretend to maintain orderliness in the face of stack and self-induced anomie. And this is becoming nauseating, to say the least.
Political events in the past few weeks have shown stubborn deafness to popular opinion, on the part of the State, to rein in discord and avoid setting a dangerous precedent that attempts to lock democracy and constitutionalism in a bottle only the powerful can unlock. This is worrisome.