Rivers State All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in the 2023 general elections, Tonye Cole, thinks Nigeria must reevaluate its current presidential system of government.
Cole argued that the system is not fit for the country.
He made this statement on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday, claiming that most people in Africa are dissatisfied with the political systems practiced in their different countries.
We must go back and reexamine this American system, which we refer to as the Presidential system in Nigeria. The UK’s parliamentary system cannot be imported and will function here, but a presidential system cannot be imported and will not function here.
If you ask every African in their nation if they are happy with their democracy and political system, they will tell you that they are not. Why? Because that is completely at odds with who we are,” he remarked.
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He cited China and the Arab world as examples of nations that rejected Western political models, arguing that every successful nation has created a system of governance specific to its own circumstances.
Noting that Nigeria had an indigenous political structure before to colonization and should think about reverting to it, the former Rivers State APC gubernatorial flag bearer emphasized that Nigeria’s system of governance should be based on its own culture.
We have already established a political structure that is African and Nigerian in focus. Even throughout the time of the slave trade, we had a governmental system in place before the arrival of the Europeans. What are we fleeing from, then? We are aware of what to do,” he continued.
He said that the presidential system in Nigeria is ineffective in part because it is vulnerable to abuse by a select few, and it has failed to establish accountability-holding institutions.
According to the politician, Nigeria is constructing institutions that are based on the British system, which Nigerian culture cannot accept.
