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The referee blew the whistle, the linesman raised a flag, the electoral officer counted the votes, and even when people grumbled, they generally accepted that the game was bigger than any one player. Institutions existed so that personal desires did not become public policy
A whole Presidential Council with a fancy name is allegedly moving money for “foreign intervention promotion”? “Account? What account? We are also surprised o.”
The 2006 EFCC watchlist was not, in retrospect, a prosecution document. It was and we can now say this with the authority of twenty years of evidence, a directory of the durable.
Street Professor Dave Umahi, Lagos, the Atlantic and the Missing Environmental Impact Assessmen
The Mechanics of Capture: How Nigeria’s Democratic Institutions Are Quietly Subverted From Within
Centre for Nigeria Progress 