What Would It Mean for Nigeria to Elect an Igbo President?

In the past few weeks, as Nigeria’s Feb. 25 elections approached, the country seemed to be in the middle of an economic and infrastructural meltdown. The Central Bank of Nigeria had recently recalled the three largest-denomination naira notes, requiring that more than 200 million people deposit all their old notes within a span of three months, in a country where people mainly use cash and where millions do not have bank accounts at all.