Three years in, and nothing has changed, By Uddin Ifeanyi

A former governor of Lagos State, whose progressive ways had altered the nation’s commercial capital was finally going to get a chance at modernising the country. He, was, according to one of the more charming chronicles bruited about in his bid for the presidency, going to sunder the leash with which “the Hausa-Fulani oligarchy” has continued to hold back the Nigerian state. El Dorado was not promised. But at least some level of competence in the management of the state and merit in the assignment of its scarcest resource were suggested.