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Tweaking Nigeria’s democracy to deliver more for the people (I)
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Fri Jul 02 2021
We must think outside the box. For some reason we have been unable to think beyond OA Lawal, that ‘Government’ textbook in secondary school that defined how everything, every system of government should be… theoretically.
We failed to read that book in the context of history, and we treated the study of ‘government’ like a science, instead of an art that evolved with time. Therefore, non-existent terminologies such as ‘true democracy’, and ‘true federalism’ made landfall in Nigeria and refused to go away. Rather these phantom terminologies have only gathered steam and are threatening to define our collective future.
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Olubunmi Omoogun, Media Aide to Senator Tolu Odebiyi, Senator representing Ogun West highlights the laudable achievements of Odebiyi in the education sector
It has become a habit of most non-partisan individuals in the country to view modern day politicians as people who lack principles and decorum unlike the politicians of old who avowed unshakeable self-devotion to the people’s cause. Even after they’ve left us, the undying love people have for these politicians of old is still evident due to their legacies, principles, moral compass, decorum and the vital roles they played in the struggle for a better Nigeria.
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INDEED, the Democracy Day 2021 came with striking episodes. Prior to the day, tensions grew high in the society. Some planned for a revolution and unceasingly threatened that President Muhammadu Buhari must vacate Aso Rock. As a result, a hashtag ‘BuhariMustGo’ circulated across many social media for mobilisation. Eventually, after realising that a democratically-elected government has strict thorough procedures particularly in removing a president, the fire gradually quenched.
The architects perceptively realised, along the line that removal of an elected president is exclusively a legislative affair, and not a street affair by masses, thus, not feasible by civil unrest or protests. In fact, it doesn’t end with the legislature the National Assembly as any impeachment proceedings must be endorsed by a panel to be set up by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, to proceed as provided in Section 143(5). And subsection 6 (Sec 143[6]) gives the accused president a right to defend h
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