Former interim National Chairman
of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande has said that the
brand of democratic system in Nigeria is akin to military junta, noting that
political players are not better than military dictators and despots.
The former Osun State Governor
also expressed pessimism over the competence of the youths to take over the
mantle of leadership, saying there is total erosion of values among the young
generation.
“The core value system is no more
in place. We have a mixture of the negative and positive tendencies among the
youths.
“The negative tendencies are more
than the positive ones. How do we get sincere and good future leaders in the
present society”.
Akande, spoke when he payed host
to members of Pan Yoruba group known as Yoruba Patriotic Movement at his
Ila-Orogun, his country home.
He noted that the whole political
system and pattern of governance in Nigeria predicated on “governance with
impunity”.
He explained that the Nigerian
party system was still far from entrenching internal democracy base on
carryover of military orientation and gestapo approach.
Akande insisted that the only way
democracy could be sustained and nurtured in a party system is to have an
independent and virile political parties, the one not tied to the apron string
of any governmental institution or structure.
“Political party grew in
hierarchy system in those days; whether you are tailor, bricklayer, carpenter
or whoever, you must learn politics through your political party.
“You cannot just rise up and say
you want to become this, you want to become that in the party. You must learn
first. Political party was a leadership training ground.
“But the military deliberately
killed that system. The military wanted to be controlling the political party
after they left power.
“The military created political
party like NRC, SDP during Babangida’s time; we would remember the five leprosy
fingers of General Sani Abacha. After they left government, they made
regulations for the political parties through the civilian government.
“Up till date, military mentality
still pervades our political system. Unfortunately, those who knew the military
plan have left the political party leadership. Majority of the people at the
leaderships of the political party are those who grew or learn politics in the
military arrangement”, Akande opined.
No. Because elders like you did not show good values as regards Nation Building.... They learnt from the best, elders like you
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