By Paul Effiong, Abuja
Critical stakeholders have condemned and argued that democracy and democratic system of government as practice in Nigeria has cause more harm than good.
Different speakers made the observations yesterday during a National Discourse on Home-Grown Parliamentary System of Government organised by the Home-Grown Parliamentary System Support Group PSSG, in Abuja.
In his welcome,e remarks, the former presidential aide, Usman Bugaje who was also a Guest Speaker during the occasion lamented that the last 25 years of democratic government in Nigeria has not yielded any positive result for the citizens.
According to him, Nigeria current system of democracy was fashion after the American model of presidential democracy even as he called for circumspection in considering a better option known as the parliamentary system.
The former lawmaker said, if anything, three major things have happened in the last 25 years of the adoption of the American model of democracy in Nigeria which included; deepening poverty, escalating security and mind-boggling corruption.
“You look at the statistics, even if you only have to go to the World Bank or UNDP, just look at the statistics at the National Bureau for Statistics. You see how poverty has been deepening in the last 25 years.
“You look at the escalating security. I mean, 1999 was fairly peaceful despite the transition into the military. But look at what has happened 10 years later, another 10 years later, where are we now?
New bandits are arriving into our own land, even as we have not quite finished with the ones that have already shown their faces.
