like to tell us, the electorate, that the internal dynamics of their party is a ‘family affair, implying that we who are at the receiving end of the governance and policies of members of these parties are outsiders who have no say. They have been able to get away with this argument because many of us are ‘too busy surviving Nigeria to care’ or have given up hope.
The inability of a party and its members to be democratic about their processes indicates that they cannot be democratic when in office. They know too well the benefits of subversion and will always revert to the ‘easy’ model of winning. This is why even the so-called sophisticated technocrats in government house end up behaving like those we consider thuggish, ineffective or entitled especially when it comes to eroding the independence of local governments and state assemblies.
We can expect more conflict around the convention and primaries, all designed to ensure that within the disorder the path to maintaining status quo is clear. This, in Nigeria-speak, ‘any-how-ness’ in the way APC is managed internally is carried into the conduct of government as evidenced by
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