Nigeria’s election offers the country a chance at a reset

[BidenPresident]

Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country with its largest economy, is heading into an election just as it seems in danger of falling apart.

Although the threat from the militant Boko Haram has receded, violence by bandits, separatists and extremist splinter groups has become endemic. In the northeast, herders and bandits regularly clash and fragmented jihadist groups remain active. In the southeast, Biafran secessionist attacks have been rising. And in the Niger Delta region, piracy and oil theft are rampant.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/23/nigeria-election-reset-economy-democracy/

 

[BidenPresident]

"No wonder that most Nigerians — about 89 percent, according to the Afrobarometer survey — think their country is going in the wrong direction. Fortunately, Nigerians haven’t given up on democracy, which might be a consequence of having lived through incompetent military rule in the 1990s. But most are dissatisfied with how their democracy is working. Or, more accurately, not working.