Else, there would be no need to seek to succeed the incumbent in office. And, yes, the take of an opposition party must be different. The arithmetic that undergirds the inter-party dialogue in a democracy collapses, though, when the opposing party struggles to find a counter-narrative strong enough to persuade the electorate of its different take on the facts of the latter’s everyday life. To lend a roseate shtick to contemporary events, processes or things, especially when these are outcomes diverging completely from its pre-election manifesto ― that is the political function of a party in government. Fans of the ruling party prefer to point out the Buhari government’s “massive investment” in building up domestic physical infrastructure as the gains the country has earned from the pains that the government’s detractors are wont to point to. Yet, the partisanship that has a section of the populace denying the fact of an economic malaise is an essential part of the cut-and-thrust of a democracy. Down this “supposedly” unscripted alleyway, the economy has hurtled (exaggerating along the way, the boom and bust cycle that is a bane of market economics ) towards the cul-de-sac that we are now at. All it has done, in truth, is to pursue self-sufficiency, through gifts to industrial champions and bans on competing offerings. painlessly, the Federal Government has authorised the pursuit of unorthodox economic policies. Worried about the failure of orthodox economics to deliver as would a fairy godmother, i.e. Indeed, on the government’s admission, the economy has been at the end of an economic experiment. ― through subsidiary numbers (inflation, unemployment, the naira’s exchange rate), it is clear that the economy last had it this bad in the mid-1980s. From the big picture itself ― domestic economic output numbers, the size and burden of the public debt, etc. There is abundant evidence from the government’s bean counter for this fact. You would not think, from a dispassionate assessment of the available evidence, that the conclusion that the Nigerian economy has unravelled under the Buhari government’s watch would be a contentious one. If nothing at all, they do require a certain type of mass media to work well. If the crisis of representation in the advanced democracies provide any context, though, the contribution of think-tanks to democracies might by over-hyped. Is there space, then, for independent, informed and credible sources of commentary on national affairs? The result of research by these bodies shaping public discourse around the subjects that matter ought, at the very least, to boost the quality of political representation.
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