Nigeria: Completing obasanjo's legacy

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 100-115

  Sklar, Richard L ^a   Onwudiwe, Ebere ^b   Kew, Darren ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

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EID: 33747057110     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.2006.0054     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. See Darren Kew, "The 2003 Elections: Hardly Credible, but Acceptable," in Robert I. Rotberg, ed., Crafting the New Nigeria: Confronting the Challenges (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2004), 139-73. The European Union retreated from the harsh judgment of its own observer mission.
2. A recent example, involving Nigerian initiatives within the framework of the African Union (then chaired by Obasanjo) and the Economic Community of West African States, includes the restoration of an electoral process, albeit a flawed one, in the Republic of Togo.
3. Afrobarometer press release, 14 March 2006. See www.afrobarometer.org/results/PressReleaseNigeriaTermLimits3.pdf.
4. For further explanation of this concept, see Darren Kew, "Building Democracy in 21" Century Africa: Two Africas, One Solution," Seton Hall Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations 1 (Winter-Spring 2005): 149-61.
5. The results of a national census, conducted in March 2006, are due for release shortly. While no data on ethnicity and religion were collected, rough estimates based on state-population figures may be, expected to provoke controversy.
6. For commentaries, see Rotimi T. Suberu, Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2001), 189-97;
7. Ebere Onwudiwe, "Geopolitical Zones and the Consolidation of Democracy," in Adigun A. B. Agbaje, Larry Diamond, and Ebere Onwudiwe, eds., Nigeria's Struggle for Democracy and Good Governance (Ibadan: University of Ibadan Press, 2004), 267-76.
8. For the development of this phenomenon, see Richard Joseph, Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria: The Rise and Fall of the Second Republic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987)
9. and Michael Bratton and Nicolas van de Walle, Democratic Experiments in Africa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
10. Guardian Online (Lagos), 20 December 2005, www.ngrguardiannews.com.
11. Guardian Online, 13 January 2006, www.ngrguardiannews.com.
12. World Bank, Nigeria: State and Local Governance in Nigeria, Report No. 24477-UNI, 23 July 2002, 20.
13. Johannes Harnischfeger, "The Bakassi Boys: Fighting Crime in Nigeria," Journal of Modern African Studies 41 (March 2003): 23-49;
14. William Reno, "The Roots of Sectarian Violence, and Its Cure," in Robert I. Rotberg, ed., Crafting the New Nigeria, 233.
15. Council on Foreign Relations, More than Humanitarianism: A Strategic U.S. Approach Toward Africa, Report of an Independent Task Force (New York: 2005), 30-31, Nigeria has recently entered into an agreement with the United States to bolster security, combat financial crimes, and foster community development in the Niger Delta.
16. While Atiku is a Muslim and Obasanjo an evangelical Baptist Christian, all indications are that religious differences have played no role in what has been purely a political rupture.
17. Richard L. Sklar, "Unity or Regionalism: The Nationalities Question," in Robert I. Rotberg, ed., Grafting the New Nigeria, 39-59.
18. See Kabiru Yusuf, "Obasanjo's Reforms Should Be Irreversible," Daily Triumph (Lagos), 5 April 2006.