Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Dr Olisa
Agbakoba, has suggested a new model of government for Nigeria.
This is even as Agbakoba claimed that the Western democratic
liberal model has failed in Nigeria.
He made this known on Friday while fielding questions on
Arise Television’s Morning Show programme.
Agbakoba suggested “a consociational democracy, where we
build our institutional democracy around our institutions.”
He said: “I think that the basic problem to permit me to give a small contextual and conceptual background about where we are and the problem, I think that the basic problem is that the Western democratic liberal model has failed. Nigeria, as you know, we’ve worked on a new constitutional process for 25 years, since 2000 and nothing.
“I think it’s time to rethink and reimagine our democratic
experience. It’s not working, it’s not inclusive, it’s divisive. It’s full of
fighting. It’s a winner take it all. People want power, nobody wants to be in
the opposition.
“You see the opposition, people all jumping into the APC.
The process is not working. So personally, I would advocate something
homegrown, autonomous, what I call consociational democracy, where we build our
institutional democracy around our institutions.
“I am a very strong person for finding a role for
traditional rulers. King Charles is the constitutional monarch of the United
Kingdom, and he has a role to play. He’s going to Canada. He’s playing a role
in the trade process. He’s got a good deal with Trump.
“So I think our constitutional process should include the
traditional rulers. I will recommend the Belgium model, where the Walloons and
the Flemings are different people, but they’ve come to an arrangement whereby
there is inclusion.
“Whatever process we want to adopt, the first point would be
to discard the Western democratic liberal model, it is not working. It’s
something that enables only a few to extract. If return on capital exceeds
return on development, why would anybody want to develop Nigeria?
“These are the two broad points I think we need to take into
account in reimagining a new Nigerian experiment. Otherwise, I started at 29
like I keep saying this. Now I’m 72. If something hasn’t worked for all this
time, is it not time we think through a process?”
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Mr. Agbakigba , as a lawyer, if you say that western democracy has failed in Nigeria, you make the whole point laughable. There has never been a western democracy, western countries does not practice democracy. Where’s the democracy when NATO destroyed, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Somalia and Syria ?. What exists in western countries are selfish laws that benefits them alone and nothing else. The democracy they practice is to invade rich countries and take away their rights and frees. secondly, they take ur mineral resources without paying for them . This’s exactly what is going on in Syria with the U.S. and Israel siphoning crude oil from there. The west talks about some countries being corrupt, but the US is the most corrupt nation on earth. They introduced political banditry into electoral process, but we don’t question them because their political thuggery’s is that they do their best to conceal their atrocities from the public and go underground without being noticed with no noise. They execute their actions atrociously and far from politics. For instance, America is the most corrupt nation on earth. He has a budget Of trillions of dollars for defence but this amount go directly to US military industrial complex, and they owned or handled in most cases by private companies and some deep state politicians who are ruggedly corrupt and have no interest on whatsoever towards the welfare of the American people. This’s the system which Nigeria started practicing in the early 90’s when Nigeria politicians became the richest people on earth followed by the Americans
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