Nigeria, June 16 -- As Nigeria celebrates 26 years of unbroken democratic leadership, it's expedient for both the leadership and the led to evaluate our journey and ask ourselves the pertinent questions: how far and how well? Truly, our democratic journey has been anything but smooth. It's been bumpy and arduous. Without mincing words, we have largely lost several golden opportunities to deepen our democracy but we have sacrificed these opportunities on the altar of clannishness, greed, religious bigotry and tribalism. The result being that rather than grow our democracy and strengthen our institutions, we are a nation deeply divided along those schisms and perpetually on the brink of collapse and disintegration. The benefits of the June ...