A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Olisa Agbakoba, has criticized members of the opposition for defecting to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), saying it won’t make Western democracy work in Nigeria.
The country’s current democratic setup is not working, and politicians are only interested in grabbing power.
“I thought that things would have been a lot better than what we have today,” Agbakoba stated.
“Something is fundamentally wrong in a process that is not delivering.”
“It’s time to shed ourselves of this Western model – the Oyibo model, the model that the Europeans and the Americans have foisted on us – it’s not working.”
Nigerians are only interested in a system that provides the basic necessities of life for them.
The senior lawyer opined that Nigeria must begin to think about a system that works for the generality of the people since the Western model of democracy is certainly not working in the country.
“If the answer is to keep defecting, that’s not going to help Nigerians because it will not strengthen democracy, adding that it would rather weaken it,” Agbakoba said.