AMERICA’S MIDTERM ELECTIONS: LESSONS FOR NIGERIA 2027.
Consequently, our electoral processes GODWIN SOGOLO argues that Nigeria’s electoral process is too deeply compromised by corruption to make any meaningful change Nigeria is not the United States of America.
Consequently, our electoral processes cannot be expected to mirror those of the United States, nor should Nigerians be expected to behave exactly like Americans in the exercise of their democratic rights.
These are fundamental distinctions worth establishing at the outset – if only to pre-empt those who might question the appropriateness of drawing comparisons between the recently concluded US midterm elections and Nigeria’s forthcoming general elections in January 2027.
There are, however, other fundamental facts that cannot be ignored. First, the presidential system of government practised in Nigeria is borrowed – almost wholesale – from the United States of America. Second, Western democracy is founded on certain principles and values against which its success or failure is measured. Perhaps even more fundamentally – whether American or Nigerian – we are all human beings, endowed with the common faculties of rationality, free will and the capacity to make independent choices.
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