Nigeria’s dominant elite fake to be training a liberal democratic framework of governance for the nation, however in actuality are devoid of substance and with out dwelling as much as expectations of its primary rules and tenets, Prof. Attahiru Jega, former Chairman of the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC).
Jega stated this on the maiden lecture of Kwaravisioners Community for Rural Growth, held in Ilorin on Saturday, on the College of Ilorin auditorium with the theme: ‘Politics, Governance and Management Recruitment in 21st Century Democracy.’
He stated: “Political events created by the dominant elite, purportedly because the particular function automobiles for management recruitment and fielding candidates for elections as residents elected representatives within the governance processes, have as an alternative change into particular function automobiles for self-enrichment, obstruction of residents aspirations and exploitative authoritarian management.”
In accordance with him, they’ve subsequently failed in discharging their core duties beneath a liberal democratic dispensation, by giving primacy to self-serving aims.
“They’re poorly structured and organised, if they’ve manifestoes or programmes of motion in any respect, these are mere paperwork written to satisfy a authorized requirement for registration, however not believed in, they aren’t revered and they aren’t carried out. There isn’t any discernible effort or curiosity aggregation past self-serving aims,” he added.
In his lead paper on the lecture, Professor Jega stated a detailed examination of the so-called dominant events in Nigeria exhibits that there aren’t any substantive ideological orientations and there are definitely no discernible ideological variations distinguishing one from the opposite.
“For instance, who can inform what actually differentiates the APC from the PDP? They’re each funded and managed by self-serving so-called ‘cash baggage’ and ‘godfathers’.
“Certainly, in every of those events, state governors have more and more change into the ‘cash baggage’ and ‘godfathers’, controlling and influencing the management recruitment processes and nearly all affairs of the events, by advantage of their management of and corrupt enrichment from public sources,” he stated.
Professor Jega stated, “Consequently, patronage, clientelism, and prebendal tendencies represent the framework for management/candidate recruitment.”
He stated the importance of character evaluation traits and private attributes of potential recruits is jettisoned and changed by arbitrariness and self-serving aims and tendencies.
The previous INEC Chairman famous that the integrity of the electoral course of is being systematically undermined covertly or overtly by the dominant elite in governance and their political events.
“As they choose or recruit potential purchasers and put them forth as candidates in elections, they use all kinds of undemocratic, intolerant and fraudulent means to get them elected,” he stated.
He stated for the nation to stabilize and progress as a contemporary democratic nation-state within the 21st century, there’s the necessity for onerous work to alter our methods.
Supply – DailyPost
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