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Democratic impasse: Remilitarisation in Nigeria

Contrary to Olusegun Obasanjo's admonition above, the Nigerian military does not believe that the solutions to the country's problems require all heads and hands. Rather, the military, obviously in alliance with the political elite, believe that the solutions lie in the barrel of the gun as well as in the suffocation of civil society and the asphyxiation of all democratic openings in the country.3 To be sure, it is possible to interpret the failure of the democratic enterprise in Nigeria as a precipitate of some Huntingtonian, Janowitzian and other explanations as to why the military has becom…