Nigeria, Dec. 12 -- Nigeria's decisive intervention in helping stop the coup in Benin Republic was a good commitment to saving democracy for them, and maybe more important, for us. I have always taken sides with the argument that Africa's only option in consolidating democratic rule is to do so without recourse to the military who are incapable by their very nature of deepening democracy and civic culture. Of course, the argument getting louder and louder is that so many so-called democratic regimes in Africa are themselves undermining democratic processes, institutions and culture in their countries. This is true, but the solution lies not in the military but in citizens' learning to impose will on the regimes responsible for democratic ...