BENIN CITY — POLITICAL scientist, Professor Omo Omoruyi, weekend, expressed concern over the failure of the Federal Government and the political class to work out modalities for the reformation of true federation, saying such failures have made the people lose faith in the democratic order being put in place by government. Professor Omoruyi, who spoke on a paper entitled:
"Democracy as right; a neglected issue in Nigeria” at the first distinguished lecture of the Faculty of Social Science of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), said the failure and indifference being shown by the political class towards the call for the convocation of a Sovereign National Conference and true democratisation in Nigeria made the people replace their faith in a new democratic order with despair.
He said: "these indifferent attitude of the political class to the problem of democratisation and true federation in Nigeria is linked to the fact that Nigerian politicians never believed that democracy is worth dying for and that they never even fought for independence and true democracy.”
He stated that the problem of the political class started since the struggle for independence and flowed to the present struggle for democracy and true federation. "Let me take you through it all. The politicians of post-January 1966 era were not different from the generation of the Nigerian political leaders who inherited independence and the post-colonial state from Britain because just as the first generation of politicians and government did not pose any challenge to colonial rule, the politicians of post-January 1966 era posed no challenge to the military.
The resemblance of the two generation of political classes is that they don’t seem to know how democracy or independence were achieved. These classes of Nigerians are political nihilists; they have no belief in anything but play the politics of anything goes or any government in power goes.”
He pointed out that the right to true democracy and federation is a right to human dignity, adding that, "the beauty of democracy lies in the vote of an individual which is recognised in all democracies.
It affords the citizens to be equal to join hands and elect those who govern them; and to successfully reach the end of achieving true federalism and democratisation, the ruling class and other leaders should arrest the declining faith in a democratic political order and help the people overcome the despair.”
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