Nigeria, July 28 -- You can be forgiven for thinking that poor governance is a Nigerian. Take a walk down any Nigerian street in any town of your choice, and the disregard with which want and degradation traipse around is at odds with the many possibilities that these places speak of. This tension is not helped by the local preference for mental whataboutery and opaque processes. Still, at the intersection of all of these, lies a far bigger problem. Since the start of our current democratic experiment in 1999, corrupt incumbent governments have nearly always been advertised as the economy's bugbear. Inevitably, large parts of the voting public imagine that the claims, while on the hustings, of incoming parties to fix the economy include r...