 Also, the vice president and former president, Ulusegun Obasanjo, were among participants in a two-day high-level dialogue organized by the Coalition for Dialogue on Africa, Kouda. The event with the theme West Africa, rising to the challenges of consolidating democratic governance held at the Ulusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abellkuta, the Oghuz State Capitol. The former president and vice president during the opening session declared that West Africa and the whole of Africa at large are currently going through a perilous storm following the political instability in some parts of the continent. The state of democracy in West Africa, and indeed in Africa, requires urgent attention. In recent years, we have witnessed the return of Koudita, election fraud and political violence resulting in instability, and threatening the developmental gains we have made in the last couple of decades. I feel very sad, and it gives me great concern when I see the democratic system we have painfully built collapsing. And I believe there must be a solution, because the problem is human, and all human problems be solved by human being. In other words, we have developed a fairly robust language of censure and a sophisticated punitive framework for responding to extra-constitutional political interventions. But we have not yet been able to formulate a similarly sophisticated framework for addressing the infractions of elected governments that fall short of democratic best practices or break faith with their citizens. If this concern is left unaddressed, it will deepen the perception of regional groupings such as ECOWAS as being no more than elite transitional clubs of powerful leaders only interested in maintaining their own privileges. This will ultimately lead to an erosion of the legitimacy of the Pan-African institutions that our nations have labored hard to build.