Nigeria, June 2 -- The height of Nigeria's leadership catastrophe is found on the ugly high horse of outgoing elected officials who pre-suppose to feel the people's pulse by choosing their successors. Experience has shown that they do this not to continue any legacy of development, which is mostly lacking anyway, but to protect their loot and larceny from being detected.

The momentous 2027 general elections draw closer by the day, and Nigerians are feeling the heat already. The elections are proving disruptive, but not in the good way democracy is meant to be disruptive and destructive of the tendencies of a people to dictatorship.

For example, for months now, as insecurity has soared around the country, pulling entire communities and ...