militiciann.
/ˌmɪlᵻˈtɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌmɪləˈtɪʃən/, West African English /ˌmiliˈtiʃan/ derogatory.
In western Africa (originally and esp. in Nigeria): a politician who, though maintaining an outward display of democracy, is strongly associated with or actively supported by a military establishment, and typically gained power through military force.
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1995 Independent (Nexis) 11 Nov. 3 The former [Nigerian] presidential candidate Maitama Sule has dubbed the soldiers/politicians ‘militicians’.
1999 Post Express (Nigeria) (Electronic ed.) 9 Feb. They maintained that it was a gang up by the military to keep the civilian populace in perpetual servitude and to allow ‘militicians’ out of uniform eat their loot in peace.
1999 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) (Electronic ed.) 7 May This has been the trend in the west coast of Africa in which the military, called ‘militicians’ by Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, enforces dictatorship by content. Elections are organized, few people vote.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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