Nigeria, March 12 -- This question has quietly moved from the margins of academic debate into the center of Nigeria's political conversation. In recent times, the country has witnessed a wave of intense outcry, concern, fear, and anxiety about what many commentators describe as "a drift toward a one-party state." To some observers, this development represents a looming national tragedy, a democratic collapse, or a troubling moral decline in leadership. In their view, the emergence of a dominant ruling party automatically signals the death of accountability and the arrival of bad governance. Beneath this anxiety lies a simple but powerful assumption: that a multi-party system guarantees good governance, while a one-party or dominant-party...