Nigeria, June 25 -- Every election cycle in Nigeria unearths the same fundamental flaw in our democracy: citizens going to the polls largely uninformed, indifferent, manipulated, or deliberately misled. For a country that claims to be Africa's largest democracy, Nigeria's political environment remains a sobering contradiction. We have millions of registered voters, thousands of polling units, and a very expensive electoral commission, but we still struggle with one basic requirement for credible elections: voter education.

Nigeria's electoral history is littered with violence, rigging, vote buying, and judicial reversals, but there is a less dramatic, yet equally dangerous, threat quietly undermining our democracy, the ignorance of the e...