The State Of Nigerian Democracy
The State Of Nigerian Democracy
In January, Nigeria’s president flew to London and never returned to his country. President Muhammadu Buhari was supposed to undergo routine medical checkups but disappeared from public view for weeks.
The rumor will went crazy. Eventually, photos were released to prove he was still alive, but he has yet to return to Nigeria and no one knows exactly what is wrong with him.
In the meantime, the vice president has gone to work in his place, as the country faces an economic recession. We talk about the state of Nigeria’s democracy, how its domestic politics might impact its relationship with the U.S. and ongoing security concerns about the extremist group Boko Haram with Ambassador John Campbell, a senior fellow for Africa policy studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and Wale Adebanwi, a professor at the University of California Davis .