Nigeria, April 18 -- Nigeria's democracy is sick. To cure it, it does not need medical doctors. What it needs to get well is a group of democrats that would pull it out from that slough in which it is trapped. If it continues to be trapped in the slough by anti-democratic forces who benefit from it being trapped, it will continue to be sick. If it continues to be sick, its death may soon be announced. And I am very sure that the death of democracy in Nigeria, if it is eventually announced, will not shock the world. Going by the characters of the Nigerian ruling 'democrats,' democracy's death is overdue.

Why democracy is still breathing, if it is actually breathing, remains a mystery. That song 'Tell Your Papa' by that ace artiste whose n...