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.... ....   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact Towards a better life for the people Search The Archives   Cover Stories National News South West Niger Delta South East North Politics Business Sports World Viewpoints Features   ..... NATIONAL NEWS Niger Delta leader wants abolition of states and parties By OMOBOLANLE DOSUMU Sunday, September 12, 2004 NIGERIAN industrialist and champion of Niger Delta interests, Mr. Henry Olujimi Boyo, has spoken of how to usher in a new form of governance capable of leading to “meaningful development.” Speaking on television in Lagos, Boyo said the present party-based arrangement of running the country has proved not only expensive but also destructive. In its place, he proposed what he called a zero-party platform of administration and electoral process. Boyo spoke recently during the maiden edition of “Executive Rendezvous” on Multi-Channel Television (MCTV) Nigerian First Cable TV. The programme is hosted by Mr. Olu Obafem, a journalist.  Boyo told viewers: “The present system is not working. Some 75 per cent of the country’s resources go into sustaining an ineffective system of party structures and a dictatorship which we call democracy. The party system is unhelpful. In its place we should have zero-party system.”He said his proposal would entail an electoral arrangement based on working along the six geopolitical zones in the country, and the abolition of the states. “The states should be scrapped and collapsed into the geo-political zones with a vice president in each. The president of the country would emerge from one zone to rule the whole nation for a year. The following year another zone produces the president until is the turn of every zone to be at the centre and so on...Representation will not be along political party lines but along ethnic or geo-political lines,” Boyo said. He said there is need for urgent change on the basis of this innovation “because there is no likelihood of improvement in the future.”The Niger Delta spokesman said maintaining the 36 states bureaucracy has proved rather wasteful while running party politics has taken a fatal toll on the polity. “In the case of party politics”, Boyo commented, “you find elected Nigerian leaders choosing to please their respective parties and their functionaries, not the people who elected them. "   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact © 1998- 2004. Vanguard Media Ltd.

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