A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Olisa Agbakoba, has
lambasted members of the opposition for collapsing their structures for the
ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, expressing belief that Nigeria’s model
of democracy needs a rejig.
This was as he said the country’s current democratic setup
is not working, questioning the level of commitment by politicians in Nigeria,
whom he accused of being only interested in grabbing power.
Agbakoba made this statement on Monday’s edition of ‘Politics
Today’, a Channels Television’s programme.
“I thought that things would have been a lot better than
what we have today. And I’ve looked at it very carefully, and I say something
must be wrong, that after, not even 25, let’s go to 1960: so we have had
military coups in and out, then finally democracy for over 25 years. Something
is fundamentally wrong in a process that is not delivering.
“In my reflections, and I’ve reflected quite a lot, I just
came to a conclusion that it’s time to shed ourselves of this Western model –
the Oyibo model, the model that the Europeans and the Americans have foisted on
us – it’s not working,” he stated.
The human rights lawyer said that Nigerians were only
interested in a system that provides the basic necessities of life for them.
The senior lawyer opined that Nigeria must begin to think
about a system that works for the generality of the people since the Western
model of democracy is certainly not working in the country.
The legal luminary’s comment comes following the gale of
defections from opposition parties to the ruling All Progressives Congress, a
development he said is inimical to the country.
According to the former president of the Nigerian Bar
Association, NBA, if the answer is to keep defecting, that’s not going to help
Nigerians because it will not strengthen democracy, adding that it would rather
weaken it.
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