- JOHN ODEY ADUMA, PUBLISHER AND BRITISH CHEVENING SCHOLAR
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Democratic diarchism: Muhammadu Buhari's dangerous route to the garrisonization and subsequent militarization of Nigeria
Who's that bloke behind you in a democracy, Mr President?
A foremost advocate of diarchy in Nigeria was the great Zik. And looking back after twenty years of his death, I dare say with all sense of responsibility that Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe did not really want and actually approve of diarchy as a form of government to be adopted by a superactive-super-eruptive polity like Nigeria, but hazarding a guess, the great man's concern/suggestion was borne out of looking for a lasting solution to the then military's frequent intervention in the governance of Nigeria through coups, which more often than not turned out to be the opposite of all of their purported coup missions of arresting the drift in the government they had chased out, blaming the government of and legitimising their action by adducing corruption as the reason why they struck.