Not done with just reversing the gains made in conducting credible elections in Nigeria, Mr Buhari and his party have also begun to shrink the civic space and making concerted efforts to outlaw free speech and civil liberties that Nigerians have been increasingly enjoying since 1999
One of the consequences of the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union was the almost world-wide appeal of Western liberal democracy. So popular did the concept become that even the worst totalitarian/fascist regimes in the world began to lay claim to the word “democratic” a
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