Fifty years ago today, on July 29, 1975, the crackling voice of Colonel Joseph Nanven Garba pierced the early morning airwaves, announcing the end of General Yakubu Gowon's nine-year reign. The coup was bloodless, swift, and ostensibly necessary — Gowon had become "indecisive," "weak," unable to deliver the democratic transition he had promised.
In the futile quest for the perfect leader, Nigeria's post-independence history reads like a political Sisyphus myth — an eternal pushing of the leadership boulder up the mountain, only to watch it r
