Nigeria, March 5 -- It's such a sad matter seeing supposedly sane Nigerians taking pride in abject stupidity.

Nigeria has become the laughingstock of the world in our warped practice of what ought to be a constitutional democracy.

There is no escaping the morbid reality that the benighted country has been turned into a near-death totalitarian state.

The executive, the legislature, the judiciary, and even the so-called fourth estate of the realm, the press, have all been yoked together as marooned servants of temporal power.

Everywhere you care to look, all aspects of democracy are operated in the breach, bordering on toying with the destiny of the nation.

It is now hitting home why even before the first votes were cast, the power-gra...