In your bookstores soon! “The Selectorate”, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

Elections should be decided by the people, but in Nigeria, judges have increasingly assumed the role of kingmakers. The Selectorate traces how judicial interventions have shifted political legitimacy from the electorate to a small clique of legal insiders.

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As courtrooms replace polling booths, the right to vote is hollowed out, leaving democracy vulnerable to manipulation. Author Chidi Odinkalu warns that without urgent reform, Africa’s fragile democracies risk becoming judicial oligarchies where power is allocated behind closed doors rather than won through the will of the people.

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