The Administration, on Monday, faulted previous President Olusegun Obasanjo for the present status of Nigeria’s Democracy system, saying that the majority rules system the nation right now rehearses traces all the way back to coordinate contributions by Obasanjo when he drove the country’s first as military Head of State from 1976 – 1979 and as regular citizen President from 1999 – 2007.
“Obasanjo should realize that he brought this thing into Nigeria. He was the person who caused us to embrace it in 1979. He probably seen it as costly and unsatisfactory when he represented us for a considerable length of time and, surprisingly, needed an expansion for an additional four years.
“Thus, the manner in which he is sounding, it resembles the man is getting more shrewd subsequent to leaving office,” Onanuga expressed, responding to Obasanjo’s post-official position.
The Presidency’s reaction followed remarks made by Obasanjo at the undeniable level conference on Reevaluating Western Liberal Democracy rule government in Africa held at Green Hotel Heritage, Olusegun Obasanjo Official Library, Abeokuta.
Obasanjo had censured Western vote based system, recommending it had not conveyed great administration and improvement in Africa.
He required a reconsideration and control of a majority rule government to all the more likely suit African countries, refering to the Western model’s negligence for African history and intricacies.
Obasanjo proposed an “Afro Democracy” custom fitted to the landmass’ novel requirements.
The ex-president said the obstacle with the liberal majority rule government was that it was not local and didn’t consider African history and multicultural intricacies, among different characteristics.
Tearing apart the Western liberal vote based system, Obasanjo depicted it as a “administration of a couple of individuals over every one individuals or populace and these couple of individuals are delegates of just a portion of individuals and not completely agents of the multitude of individuals. Perpetually, most individuals are wittingly or accidentally kept out.”
As per him, African nations should not be working an arrangement of government in which they have no hands in its “definition and plan.”
Obasanjo said, “The shortcoming and disappointment of liberal majority rules government as it is polished come from its set of experiences, content and setting and practice. When you move from every one individuals to a delegate of individuals, you begin to experience inconveniences and issues.
“For the people who characterize it as the standard of the greater part, should the minority be disregarded, dismissed and prohibited? So, we have an arrangement of government wherein we have no hands to characterize and plan and we go on with it in any event, when we realize that it isn’t working as far as we’re concerned.
“The individuals who carried it to us are presently scrutinizing the rightness of their innovation, today deliverability and its significance without change. The quintessence of any arrangement of government is the government assistance and prosperity of individuals, every one individuals.”
He contended that Nigerians must “examine the presentation of a majority rule government in the West where it began from and with us the inheritors of what we are left with by our frontier powers.”
Be that as it may, the Administration faulted the previous pioneer for an inadequately replicated model during his residency as Head of State and, later, President.
It reprimanded Obasanjo for not supporting a superior framework regardless of his ongoing perspectives saying, “In the event that he has faith in what he is talking about now, he should be a promoter of the need to return to the parliamentary framework.”
Onanuga added, “We were rehearsing the parliamentary majority rules government the English left for us. Then, the military struck in 1966. Furthermore, when we planned to get back to a majority rules government, rather than returning to what we were rehearsing previously, parliamentary vote based system, which was not costly, it was this equivalent Obasanjo who acknowledged the proposal of the sacred gathering around then that suggested this American-style a vote based system.”
The Administration scrutinized Obasanjo’s execution of the official framework, saying, “Obasanjo likewise realize that he duplicated this official framework wrongly. He replicated the structure and construction. Yet, he didn’t duplicate the soul of it.”
“Something that ought to have been under him in 1999 to 2007, he even made endeavors to change the constitution,” Onanuga commented.
