After the meritocrats took over in the 1960s, we got quagmires in Vietnam and Afghanistan, needless carnage in Iraq, the 2008 ...

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If the US presidential system is promoting criminality, why should the same system be accepted and promoted in Nigeria? The international politics of the election is another kettle of fish entirely.

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