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African Renaissance, Volume 6 Numbers 3 & 4, 2009 (Special issues: Yaradua: The Journey So far)

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In Volume 6 Number 2, we looked at the impact of the current global economic crisis on Africa. We posed questions on the roots of the crisis; its possible impacts on Africa, and the ways Africa could wriggle itself out of the logjam.

In this special issue, we focus on the Yaradua regime, which came into power in May Nigeria in 2007. Sunny Nwachukwu & Osumah Oarhe discuss the 2007 elections that brought the regime to power, and its implications for democratic consolidation in the country. They note that the conduct of the elections was fatally flawed with widespread voter intimidation, thuggery, violence, election rigging and outright falsification of collated results. For them, “since the government formed on the basis of the 2007 general election is based on fraud, the implication is that the government does not represent the people.” Ezeibe Christian Chukwuebuka discusses Yardua’s 7-point Agenda, noting that the Agenda on which the regime anchors its public policy is “rather too ambiguous and has the tendency to introduce confusion on development agenda of Nigeria.” Okolie, Aloysius- Michaels reflectson citizen diplomacy and political legitimacy in Nigeria since 2007, noting that actions and inactions of the regime since it came to power have further eroded whatever little legitimacy the regime had.

In two separate contributions, Victor Ukaogo and Max Siollun discuss the Niger Delta problem. Ukaogo reflects on the dilemma within government circles about appropriate policy approaches to adopt in the resolution of the seemingly intractable Niger-Delta conflict between 1990 and 2008. He contends that the way the various regimes have focused on the need to enthrone peace without necessarily addressing the core issue of justice, has impacted on the local population, national politics and the political economy of the Nigerian state. Max Siollun asks whether the Yaradua regime can end the crisis in the Niger Delta. He contends that though Yaradua’s methods have been inconsistent and unsuccessful, he cannot be faulted for lack of effort.

Jideofor Adibe and Abdullahi Dahiru, in separate contributions, tried todeconstruct Yaradua and his regime while both Sanya Osha and Patrick Igboegbu, in their separate contributions, examine Nigeria’s unrealised potentials and the dynamics of poverty in the country respectively.

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