In 1933, when Franklin Roosevelt pioneered the
concept of 100 days as a yardstick for measuring presidential performance in
office and a gauge of presidential success, Nigeria was certainly not part of
his thought process. Nor could Oyo State, political headquarters of the West,
be anywhere near his imagination. Never could Roosevelt have conceived the
picture of a successor taking over from his predecessor a house of ruins,
dilapidated metaphorically and literally.In conceiving of the 100 Days, Roosevelt’s projection was that presidents
