Continued from yesterday Beyond the reflections of The Guardian, other Nigerians have also preoccupied themselves with the Nigerian condition while affirming the leadership problem; they have equally indicted the followership in the Nigerian governance ...
Continued from yesterday Beyond the reflections of The Guardian, other Nigerians have also preoccupied themselves with the Nigerian condition while affirming the leadership problem; they have equally indicted the followership in the Nigerian governance quagmire.
In a prescriptive tone, he notes that “ It almost seems unfair to demand more from people most of whom live in multidimensional poverty, but if the theses of leaders emerging from amongst the people and all of society thinking alike are true, then it must mean that if we want better leaders, we have to be better people.”
In the foregoing, there is a dominant strain of blame but misapplied. To put the blame of the problems of Nigeria on the followers is to equate them with causality. The followers, in my opinion, are in a Rousseauan dilemma. Claude Ake charts the democratic course and underlines liberal perversion. He goes further to examine its essential factors that must be factored into the democratic equation for democracy to take root in Africa which are the social context, experience and the fulfilment of the social needs of the people. Therefore, participatory democracy allows for political freedom that enables the people to participate in the decision-making process and ultimately meet their social needs.
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