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ABSTRACT Considering the ongoing turmoil brought about by the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic, it would be an understatement to say that it poses a great threat to good number of global activities especially in health, economic and social aspects. Invariably, this scary scenario poses quite a few basic questions. Thus, how can we save jointly, lives and livelihood? Under this circumstance, which choices are best managed by governments? How can they assess the risks that experts forecast from a lengthened lockdown such as hunger, domestic violence, and unrelieved depression as well as security of jobs, income security, food supplies, and the general wellbeing of the most defenseless people among us? This paper examines both the primary and secondary data collected to highlight the effect of COVID-19 pandemic to the economic recovery vis-à-vis political accountability, which could give rise to a new era of human development. In leadership, especially in a democratic system like Nigeria, it goes with many implications and significance, but accountability is one of its most significant elements hence, it involves a shared exchange of responsibilities and possible sanctions between leaders and the subjects. It is worthy to note that, in spite of the strong financial and administrative accountability put in place by most countries of the world, some major findings were made in our country Nigeria which includes prebendalism, corruption, misappropriation of funds either raised or allocated for COVID-19 exigencies like setting up isolation centers, test kits and palliatives. Certainly, all these are pointer to a new era 2 of human development as earlier mentioned. The study drew the conclusion that unaccountability was the major cause of poor leadership and possible low economic recovery in the post COVID- 19 era especially for Nigeria. Finally, the study recommended that governments should work harder to calculate the enormity of the shock and sharpening their tools to save economies from crumple hence, they know that history will judge them by the decisions they make at this critical stage of the world history. KEY WORDS: COVID-19, ACCOUNTABILITY, ECONOMIC RECORVERY.