2019
Subtitle: Nigeria at crossroads
By: Abdullateef Ishowo
Publisher: Unilorin Press]
Published: 2018
Place of publication: [Ilorin, Nigeria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9789789699209
Subjects: Presidents; Executive power; Nigeria; Politics and government; Election; -Biography
Description: The book is a follow-up to "Nigeria: a Bizarre Contraption" published shortly before the eventful 2015 general polls in Nigeria. It is recreated with a more confused narrative on the interminable challenge of leadership; a scourge which has continued to stroke fear, conflict and public outcry in the country. The writer, in his characteristic style, has dedicated himself to the scholarly examination of many contentious issues that have dominated our political space in recent times. Our leaders have through their actions and, or inactions instigated too many socio-political problems for the country and all these have foisted on the nation's political landscape a heightened culture of distrust, violence and resentment. For the needless controversies of yesterday not to jeopardize our needed stability tomorrow, and as we approach a new election year, the nation obviously requires a pragmatic, truly honest, sincere, highly mobile, focused and genuinely informed leader. And for the new leader, responsibility must not be assumed but inescapably willed.
Table of contents: title: 1) Introduction 2) How 2015 general election was lost and won 3) The man Buhari:; title: I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody: how true?; title: The "Buharist" and the rest of us 4) No longer at ease in Nigeria 5) Nigeria as a complex simultaneous equation 6) Political parties and Intra-party conflicts in Nigeria 7) APC's internal wrangling 8) Party defections/cross-carpets and 2019 general elections 9) State of the nation under Buhari 10) Democracy and the rule of law under Buhari 11) Buhari's anti-corruption war 12) Nigeria at Crossroads 13) Buhari and letter writers