The 2023 governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Tonye Cole, has acknowledged that Nigeria should rethink its present presidential system of presidency, insisting that the system just isn’t appropriate for the nation.
Talking on Channels Tv’s Politics Right this moment, Cole acknowledged that most individuals in Africa are uncomfortable with the political methods practiced of their respective international locations.
“This American system that we name Presidential system in Nigeria, we have to go and readdress it,” Cole mentioned. “We can not import the parliamentary system of the UK and it’ll work right here, we can not import a presidential system, it won’t work right here.
“Each African of their nation, are they glad with the political system they’ve and the democracy they’ve, they’ll let you know no. Why? As a result of it’s opposite to who we’re, completely opposite.”
He famous that each profitable nation has developed a system of presidency tailor-made to its distinctive context, citing Arab nations and China as examples of nations that rejected Western political fashions.
Cole emphasised that Nigeria’s system of presidency must be rooted in its personal tradition, noting that the nation had an indigenous political construction earlier than colonization and may contemplate returning to it.
“Allow us to construct an African, Nigerian centered political system and we’ve had it. We had a political system earlier than the Europeans got here, we had a political system even when the slave commerce was happening. So, what are we working away from? We all know what to do,” he mentioned.
The politician defined that a part of the explanations the presidential system can not work in Nigeria is as a result of it may be exploited by a couple of individuals, including that it has not constructed establishments that may maintain individuals to account.
He mentioned Nigeria is constructing establishments which can be modeled after the British system which he famous can’t be accommodated by the Nigerian tradition.
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