Nigeria, May 12 -- This democratic dispensation is imperiled. It is essentially so because it came into being through a cocktail of conspiracies. It was that conspiracy that threw up the likes of Godswill Akpabio. He was recruited as the President of the Senate not because he has the capacity to preside over an assembly of men and women who should make laws for the good governance of the country, but because he has an infinite capacity for political stalking and brinkmanship. Since the conspirators knew from the outset that they were going to rock the boat, they needed an Akpabio as the head of the legislature so that the desecration will go full cycle. Armed with the art and science of petty politicking, Akpabio was considered the right ...