ECOTERRORS:
PMB is everything a democrat can never be.

Dearpreye, whynotthetruth, barcanista, mogidi, firefire, ambivert, francizy, nigeriavenom, anonimi, altiwireless, Hzrf, shorty, candyrain, isrealiAirforce, Afam4eva, gaborone nwadiuko, pazienza and other patriots.

Have we really enjoyed the benefits or dividend of democracy

barcanista:
Thank you @ Ecoterrors.

Democracy may not be the best form of government but it is unaguable the best form of representative government. The problem with Nigeria is not the "democracy" itself, rather it is with the political players. Our attitude to power and positions is more or less as a means to reign, we see it from the business angle where winners takes all. Some people will even go as far as whipping up ethnic and religious sentiment just to grab power. What we get is a situation where electoral victors see their victory as conquest and then move to consolidate their hold on power by getting everyone to "fall in line". Unfortunately, some people are taking this to be "normal". We saw how Obasanjo went beyond his power to seize funds belonging to LASG all because of political disagreement with then Gov Tinubu. He (Obj) held on to his ground even against the ruling of the Supreme Court. We witnessed situations where governors muscle out opposition in their domain, assassination was so common etc.

Democracy will work IF we want it to. As for Military, it's a No-no!

OKNkanu:
Democracy is the mouth that is sucking dry the succulent breast's of Nigeria..... Believe it or not!.

WombRaiders:
A despot at 40 is a despot for life!

A despot never changes his ways.

A sectional bigot can not be expected to change even in his old age.

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ECOTERRORS:
There are few third world countries that got it right , In africa there is no country where democracy is not made mockery of. We need to look for a system that favors us and not a situation where tribal and religeon sentiments are the hallmarks for voting

barcanista:

We already know that kind of system that will favor us. The system of pre-1966 but with improvement.

Candyrain:
Democracy is good but what we have in Nigeria is what I call "militalized" democracy. It's never gonna work and if Nigeria must work then that system got to change and practice what the real thing is.

PMB as he is called today may have taken us back to the Obasanjo days. How else can we explain his style of intimidation, tribalism, NASS interference, selective justice, vindictiveness, and muzzling of the opposition.
PMB needs to make our democracy work, he needs to give all tribes a sense of belonging, create a strong middle class, tackle insecurity, allow for true separation of power and most importantly fiscal federalism.

omolami:
FORGET ABOUT DEMOCRACY AS LONG AS ITS BUHARI THAT IS IN POWER FOR NOW. HE IS AUTOCRATIC, DESPOTIC AND A TERRORIST. LEOPARD DON'T CHANGE ITS SKIN

Candyrain:
Democracy is good but what we have in Nigeria is what I call "militalized" democracy. It's never gonna work and if Nigeria must work then that system got to change and practice what the real thing is.

ECOTERRORS:
Regionalism, the North will never allow for it

The imbalance in the system today favours the North thats why PMB can appoint only northerners and we are reminded that they gave him the highest number of vote.

ECOTERRORS:
the North will continue to subjugate the South with numbers because of democracy that is a game of numbers. Sham

The north will always determine what happens in the country because of democracy. Sham

Why should Jigawa have more representative than Lagos in NASS if not for democracy. Sham

ECOTERRORS:
Regionalism, the North will never allow for it

The imbalance in the system today favours the North thats why PMB can appoint only northerners and we are reminded that they gave him the highest number of vote.

francizy:
I only see BIGOTOCRACY here oh..

horlabiyi:
Once a Dictator Always a Dictator. The born to rule are not interested in Democracy all they want is just POWER and now they have it and using it anyhow they like.

dearpreye:


Bro, I'm yet to understand this new version! Could you explain please?

francizy:


What and how can you explain situations where people vote based on personal/tribal interest and not based on one's achievements? As if that's not worse, they go ahead to threaten people with different mindset from theirs and call them unthinkable names.

GEJ just proved to me that Nigeria doesn't deserve a democrat and the best way to rule in Nigeria is to go up there, gag the press, hunt opposition and use EFCC as a ready tool for harassment of public office holders, only then can you win a reelection (whether majority of the masses want you back or not).

mikolo80:
Shebi election is coming in 2019,we'll see whether they won't be tamed. they need middle belt(forget that north central bullsheet) and either west south or east so they must learn to share power and resources so you guys need to stop sensationalising 'born to rule ' cos they can't rule if south starts bombing them