A recent political event, which took place on July 2nd at the Umar Musa Yar’adua center in Abuja, can be understood in this context. Present at this gathering were seasoned political nomads skilled in the act of crisscrossing political parties in their ultimate bid for access to state power. The painful consequences of that political coalition are still being suffered by the majority of Nigerians today. The control of significant resources by key political figures in the ADC coalition (mainly accumulated and multiplied during their stints in public office), the well-oiled propaganda machine surrounding political personalities in the ADC coalition, and their lasting influence in the communities and grassroots (through their well-funded organized political structures) are some of the key factors which gives the coalition a good chance of defeating the APC government. Unless a genuine, people-led political option emerges, Nigeria will keep cycling through the same elite-driven failures in new disguises.