Olisa Agbakoba, a Nigerian Senior Advocate, praises Nigeria’s 26 years of continuous civilian leadership but laments that the nation still has a long way to go before achieving multi-party democracy.
The SAN revealed this while featuring as a guest on Channels Tv politics today
A multi-party democracy with a clearly defined role for the opposition is required to replace the current system, in which nearly everyone aspires to be a member of the ruling party, according to the former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA).
“The fact that we have done 26 years uninterrupted, I would like to look at it as half-full glass. I like to be optimistic and say that it is a long journey and that we have come a long way from the days of the military,” Agbakoba said on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday.
“It is not perfect. There is a lot that still needs to be done. Democracy still needs to be consolidated. Even in the president’s broadcast at the joint session at the National Assembly, he alluded to the fact that we have a long way to go; we don’t have a strong multi-party system of democracy.
“We still have a situation of just one party where everyone wants to join the national elite party. Whether it’s the PDP, APGA or APC, the manifestoes are not different. So, we still got a long way to go to achieve multi-party democracy where you have a clearly defined opposition and a clearly defined ruling party.”
Agbakoba also urged Tinubu to provide local government councils the political authority to run their regions, claiming that the July 2024 Supreme Court ruling only goes half the way towards giving them financial autonomy.
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