GERONTOCRATIC KAKISTOCRACY IN NIGERIAN POLITY: QUESTIONING PROPER GOVERNANCE AND FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

Nigeria, country of many fragmented and disengaging nations, has continued to have problems with her polity right from her birth in 1914. Many scholars have tried to nail Nigerian problems to tribalism and ethnic6+ism which started with the amalgamation of unrelated nations, ethnic-tribal groups and independent regions as a country. Other intellectuals have moved a step from this endemic canker-worm in Nigeria polity to proffer corruption (as a result of years of awful governance) and bad leadership as the monstrous hydra-headed problem in Nigeria polity. Kakistocracy rightly defines the type of government practised in Nigeria polity where the worst in the midst the possible bests and outdated old persons are either elected or selected and or imposed on the populace in the name of democracy. The researcher in the course of this work finds out that as long as Nigeria is managed by kakistos and by greontocrats (those incapacitated by mere age) her governance will ever remain impalpable with an imperceptible and questionable development. .