Nigeria, Feb. 21 -- Nigeria's independence in 1960 provided a momentous occasion for the country to pause, re-evaluate its excision from Britain's clogged colonial policy and make a dash for a decorated prosperous future. The dash wash frighteningly and forcefully promising until the military abandoned their barracks to truncate Nigeria's future between 1966 and 1970 and for long periods after that. Those wounds have simply refused to heal.

Gratefully, Nigeria returned to democracy in 1999. With the reinstatement of democracy, elections returned as did institutions of government. The executive, judiciary, and legislature have been up and running since then.

At the federal level, it is the national assembly that makes laws. The state hou...