Nigeria never had democracy – Farotimi

A lawyer and governmental activist, Dele Farotimi, says Nigeria has ne'er had democracy.

Featuring successful an interrogation connected News Central Television, Farotimi said the state lone ever had a performative shadiness of a democracy.

He described elections successful Nigeria arsenic a hollow ritual, lamenting that definite radical who person been indicted for crimes are holding nationalist offices.

“Nigeria has ne'er experienced genuine democracy. We’ve lone ever had a performative shadiness of a democracy.

“When you absorption connected the presidency, you suffer show of the emergence of radical similar Godswill Akpabio and Ahmed Lawal, who emerged successful the Senate successful spite of the information that they were not adjacent qualified to run.

“They were expressly disqualified by the provisions of the Electoral Act. But they ended up successful the Senate, and the tribunal endorsed it.

“So, you had a concern wherever our judicial strategy has go an instrumentality for moving from the reply to the question. So, they bash it first, and past they find a mode for the judiciary to ratify what is already done.

“The judiciary is nary longer determination to adjudicate based connected instrumentality and equity. It is determination to rationalize what has been done that should ne'er beryllium done,” helium said.

Nigeria ne'er had ideology – Farotimi