Nigeria, Feb. 28 -- The best way to describe what has happened to Nigeria in the last 72 hours, beginning with the country's first set of general elections on Saturday, 25 February is to echo Charles Dickens' poetic, oxymoronic declaration in his novel A Tale of Two Cities (1859) on the radical opposites between Paris and London in the 19th Century, that indeed Nigeria now finds itself in truly interesting times, where the best and the worst are on display. Dickens's novel is one of the best novels ever written.

He told the world famously that: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring o...