What if you were told that the 1999 Constitution is a boobytrap packaged to guarantee that government fails to deliver the promises of its Section 14(b), which pretends to declare that “The security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government?”
In other words, governments in Nigeria, be they at the federal, state, or local level, are designed, ab initio, not to deliver to the citizens of Nigeria good governance, described by some as dividends of democracy.
The how, which is embedded in the Nigerian Constitution, reminds one of Karl Marx, the German political thinker and exponent of communism, who argued, in his seminal book, “The Communist Manifesto”, that the contradictions within a capitalist economy will eventually destroy it.
Though the crisis that has bedevilled capitalism has not completely overwhelmed it, communism and socialism, its doppelganger that he, Frederick Engels, Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin prescribed,
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