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A governmental expert and founding National Secretary of Alliance for Democracy, Prof Udenta Udenta, says Nigeria is not celebrating existent democracy.
Fielding questions successful an interrogation connected Arise Television’s ‘Prime Time’ on Friday, Udenta stated that Nigeria is lone celebrating electoral processes.
He was speaking arsenic the federation marked the 27th day of uninterrupted democracy.
“Nigeria is not celebrating existent ideology but electoral processes. What we present have, arsenic I said, is the tipping of the signifier of democracy. We don’t person literal interventions.
“We are celebrating with the president 27 years of an uninterrupted march of democracy. That’s not ideology marching, that’s electoral processes matching.
“Democracy is not conscionable astir legalism; it is astir legitimacy. While we whitethorn person stableness successful presumption of antiauthoritarian order, determination is an emptiness successful the substance of democracy, arsenic radical are progressively bare and overwhelmed by despair and discontent.
“Today in Nigeria, we are facing 1 of the worst cost-of-living crises successful a generation,” helium said.
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