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Prebendalism: Tinubu is ‘governing’ for the few, not the many!, By Olu Fasan

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Nigeria has never had a president like Bola Ahmed Tinubu. For the first time in its recent political history, Nigeria has a president whose standards of political morality can be described as utterly amoral in the sense that he subscribes to the cynical saying, attributed to Vladimir Lenin, that “there are no morals in politics.” Indeed, […]

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Prebendalism: Are Vote Buying and Voter Intimidation Here To Stay?, By Bamidele Ademola-Olateju

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Prebendalism was coined by Richard Joseph to describe what has become a central feature of Nigerian politics and governance. In his book, Democracy and Prebendal Politics (1987), he used prebendalism to describe the appropriation of state offices by officials and the diversion of their resources to serve themselves, their cronies and their affiliated ethnic and other identity […]

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