BREAKING: Our democracy and its vagrant elite – By Chidi Amuta

Call me emperor, not just president - By Chidi Amuta

In recent weeks, we seem to have been wrestling with the very idea of democracy. After all, our political system has passed through the Westminster parliamentary system and over three decades of the Washington type presidential system.  There is a prolonged assumption that we are… Our democracy and its vagrant elite – By Chidi Amuta … Read more

BREAKING: Call me emperor, not just president – By Chidi Amuta

Call me emperor, not just president - By Chidi Amuta

President Bola Tinubu has dealt a fatal punch on Nigeria’s democratic prospects. As the head of the executive branch, he has injured the judiciary and subverted the legislature in what promises to be a dangerous drift towards authoritarianism.  On the Rivers crisis, the Supreme Court… Call me emperor, not just president – By Chidi Amuta … Read more