Recent events in the polity have not only left a sour taste in the mouth of right thinking and law abiding citizens but have left rather innocent Nigerians wondering whether a slide into anarchy is a distinct possibility. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) the late English philosopher, in his rather famous Leviathan (pt.11,ch.19) parodied the idea of anarchy when he noted that ‘they that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy; so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy, called it anarchy, which signifies the want of government; and yet I think no man believes, that want of government...
Source: The Vanguard