It is unfortunate that there is a front-page thread on which cities are going to be the most safe from electoral violence...but it is also very telling.

A democracy assumes societies that are tolerant of opposing beliefs while appreciating the rights and privileges that come with appointing one's leaders. Getting to this stage requires a level of cultural sophistication that evades much of the Africa and the third World.

Nigeria is caught a tug of war. It's struggling between old world notions of tribal instincts/communal allegiances and new world ideas of freedom of expression/individualism. That we are inherently more of the old world than not has spelled trouble and has been a cause for the millions of deaths that have occurred here from the 1950s to date. Killing each other because of ethnic or political differences indicates that we need a firm hand to steady and restrain us until we have outgrown our cultural infancy.

The bitter truth is that we are simply not a democratic society! That we even appreciate leaders who show brute force and aggressiveness is indicative of the "rulership" we want!

I think that a military dictatorship is ideal in our situation for now. But where we fail time and time again is producing a benevolent absolute leader - one who knows how to rule with a velvet-gloved iron fist. A combination of tough love without ethnic coloration, greedy tendencies, and selfishness. A mixture of intellectual/forward looking ideas and an understanding of Nigeria's socio-cultural limitations is also needed. This is key to moving Nigeria ahead and creating a developed nation suited to our sensibilities.

At that point, we can then think of transitioning into democracy like the rest of the first world.

For now we are simply too backward, primitive and volatile to handle the dissenting views that come with a free society. Democracy in Nigeria is like a 8 year old playing with an AK-47.

I am slightly shaky at the inevitable deaths to come in the next few days. SMH!

Demo-cracy

Where someone plays with our intelligence as a demo, and then gets into power to damage the structure

Of our economy crazy.

We ve been brainwashed, yet some people will never wake up. Some of us ll put the future of our

children's children in jeopardy, just because of money and temporary gains.

Maybe, we ll wake up oneday, to choose a real leader who ll make the welfare of his followers his

priority.....what a sad democracy

They say no smoke without fire..presently the leaders of this nation...the stake holders remains the major problem to democracy,and to nigerians.
They are the one who ignites their evil fire and stays at distant enjoying the inferno.

Democracy is a very bad form of government deceitfully inserted into the African system. It will never work for us, it will never work for any society.

The events post March 28, will prove me right!

You all just watch and see.

totima:
It is unfortunate that there is a front-page thread on which cities are going to be the most safe from electoral violence...but it is also very telling.

A democracy assumes societies that are tolerant of opposing beliefs while appreciating the rights and privileges that come with appointing one's leaders. Getting to this stage requires a level of cultural sophistication that evades much of the Africa and the third World.

Nigeria is caught a tug of war. It's struggling between old world notions of tribal instincts/communal allegiances and new world ideas of freedom of expression/individualism. That we are inherently more of the old world than not has spelled trouble and has been a cause for the millions of deaths that have occurred here from the 1950s to date. Killing each other because of ethnic or political differences indicates that we need a firm hand to steady and restrain us until we have outgrown our cultural infancy.

The bitter truth is that we are simply not a democratic society! That we even appreciate leaders who show brute force and aggressiveness is indicative of the "rulership" we want!

I think that a military dictatorship is ideal in our situation for now. But where we fail time and time again is producing a benevolent absolute leader - one who knows how to rule with a velvet-gloved iron fist. A combination of tough love without ethnic coloration, greedy tendencies, and selfishness. A mixture of intellectual/forward looking ideas and an understanding of Nigeria's socio-cultural limitations is also needed. This is key to moving Nigeria ahead and creating a developed nation suited to our sensibilities.

At that point, we can then think of transitioning into democracy like the rest of the first world.

For now we are simply too backward, primitive and volatile to handle the dissenting views that come with a free society. Democracy in Nigeria is like a 8 year old playing with an AK-47.

I am slightly shaky at the inevitable deaths to come in the next few days. SMH!

Hmmm.... thanks.... Oyibo pretending to be Nigerian. Your wishes for disaster have failed to materialize. What say you now?