Lagos — Members of the political class daily lived under the fear of the military hijacking power and truncating the nation's democracy, while the constitutional crisis caused by the Presidency over the need to make Goodluck Jonathan the Acting President lasted.

Most of them were daily praying that some overzealous military men would not wake up one day, throw them out of power, and put an untimely end to the democratic practice in the country, on the account of the unnecessary tension created by the refusal of President Umaru Yar'Adua to transmit a letter to the National Assembly, empowering the legislative house to upgrade the Vice President to the office of the Acting President.

Chairman, Senate Committee on Defence, Senator Ibrahim Idah on Friday in his speech delivered at the public presentation of a book 'Winning Hearts and Minds; A community Approach for the Nigerian Military', made the disclosure, saying that at a time, there was palpable fear among the political class that the nation's democracy might be truncated after all.