It was Late Afrobeat Music king Fela Anikulapo Kuti who derided the kind of democracy practiced in Nigeria in one of his hit songs.
Instead of Democracy, he sang that what we had in Nigeria in the second republic was Dem-All-Cracy or Demonstration of Craze.
It is difficult to fault him considering what politicians in Nigeria do all in the name of practicing democracy.
Just last Saturday when the nation was waiting to witness the national convention of the rulling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which prides itself as the largest political party in Africa! during which new national officers were supposed to be elected, it was annouced that a consensus has been reached and there would be no longer election for any of the positions.
One after the other, virtually all the aspirants who had vigorously campaigned to be elected for various offices, came on the podium and annouced that they have decided to withdraw for the candidates adopted by some party leaders.
A few were bold to declare that they were under pressure to withdraw while others simply behaved liked programmed robots being remotely controlled.
PDP leaders will want us to believe that what happened last Saturday in Abuja was democracy at work but as the legendary Fela would put it , it was nothing but "Demonstration of craze".