Language and crisis go together. There is now the word ‘courtocracy’ in the Nigerian universe of usage. It was never there before.
On April 17th, 2024, that will be one word whose operationalization will be the attraction at the 22nd annual symposium marking the 41st anniversary of the passage of the man Nigeria, in the words of the late Chief Awolowo, cheated. He is Mallam Aminu Kano.
The full topic is “Democracy or “Courtocracy”: The Travails of Nigeria’s Electoral Process in the Fourth Republic” and on hand to explode it is an Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife retired Prof of International Relations, Williams Fawole. There will be two discussants namely, Senator Shehu Sani and Dr. Abubakar Umar, the Dean of the Faculty of Law of Bayero University, Kano.
Mallam Aminu Kano died April 17th, 1983. He is the founder and chief ideologue of democratic humanism.
