Those calling for the head of Smart Adeyemi, the senator representing KogiWest district for expressing preference for military rule as against the current form of democracy in Nigeria are just being hypocritical.
In their indecent haste to seemingly protect the institution of democracy they completely glossed over the fundamental issues elevated to the fore by Adeyemi’s presentation.
A critical appraisal clearly shows Adeyemi neither passed a vote of no confidence on democracy in its pure form nor endorsed military dictatorship. That is the context he spoke and it will be difficult to fault. That is what he meant by “I have said over the years that military government is the worst but the situation is even worse now when you have people that are forcing themselves on the people”.
It is these systemic dysfunctions antithetical to democratic ethos that led him to contend that democracy in the form it has been practiced here does not show much promise over and above military authoritarianism. This is evident from the rancorous primaries that threaten to and in most cases factionalize the parties after such engagements.
And where that is not the case, then what we practice is democracy in its most aberrant form. Aberrant democracy is another name for dictatorship either of the military or civilian class.
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