Accountability in Governance in Nigeria and National Development

Abstract

Good governance is the ingredient required to make the governed enjoy the benefits of government. Good governance is  that which completely accomodates accountability. Accountability is said to be in place when there is transparency, responsiveness and answerability in governance. The presence of these three ingredients in governance makes it workable, thereby making the governed to gain the utmost benefits of governance. On the other hand, lack of good governance sets the whole economy of a nation backwards and makes it a peril for the governed to taste the dividends therein.  In Nigeria, the object of governance has been so elusive over the years.  Governance in Nigeria over the years has been fraught with so many anomalies so much so that good governance has become an illusion and depriving the governed of  the desired benefits. Successive changes in governments over the years seemed not to have helped matters. Being that a new regime has just begun in country, expectations are high, to seeing positive outcomes of good governance at the end of it all. Time will tell