Nigeria, March 25 -- Nigeria has, indeed, come a long way in its democratic journey. Notwithstanding its outward appearance, Nigeria's democracy has consistently fallen short of true democratic principles.

Despite close to 26 years of uninterrupted democratic governance, yet it oscillates between authoritarianism and hybrid regimes with manifest outright dictatorships, pervasive censorship, and an unstable political system that juggles a facade of democratic processes with repressive practices - which includes; widespread use of arbitrary arrest, detention, constant judicial harassment and miscarriage of justice.

I am more worried about the legislative arm of government because of the principle of checks and balances and the enormous re...