Ladipo Adamolekun, a professor of public administration, has known as on political events to cease adopting former navy leaders as presidential and gubernatorial candidates.
Adamolekun mentioned the “two recycled navy leaders” who served as presidents within the post-1999 period — Olusegun Obasanjo and Muhammadu Buhari — have demonstrated {that a} “civilianised” navy chief “can’t be a democrat”.
The professor spoke on Wednesday at a press convention held in Akure, Ondo state, to current his newest monograph titled ‘Nigeria and I: Getting Politics Proper to Make Nigeria Work’. The occasion was a part of the actions to rejoice his eightieth birthday celebration.
Adamolekun listed “devolved federation, good democratic follow, and administrative competence” because the three important components for getting politics proper.
He mentioned: “First, a significant cause why Nigeria is just not working is as a result of we now have maintained a unitary federalism oxymoron inherited from the navy on the inception of civilian rule in 1999. To reinforce our probabilities of protecting Nigeria one, consolidating democracy, tackling insecurity successfully, and attaining accelerated socio-economic progress, Nigeria must urgently undertake and performance as a devolved federal system.
“This political system can have the next defining traits: six federating items; project of capabilities between the central authorities and the federating items primarily based on the precept of subsidiarity comparable, to a substantial extent, to the project of capabilities within the nation’s 1963 Structure; and allocation of assets that’s according to each the crucial of fiscal federalism and the proposed elevated capabilities for subnational governments.”
The octogenarian famous that Nigeria’s present poor scores with respect to key measures of fine democratic follow have to be reversed.
“Particularly, enhancements are required regarding electoral legitimacy, functioning of the get together system, scope of political participation, respect for the rule of legislation, safety of human rights, and freedom of speech and affiliation. The objective needs to be to make sure the legitimacy of governments and a functioning law-based state that will assist promote accountable governance,” he mentioned.
Adamolekun mentioned Nigeria wants a development-oriented political chief to develop the financial system, cut back poverty, guarantee safety, and work in direction of attaining prosperity for all of the residents.
“To the crucial of development-orientation, I’d add 4 important management attributes to the traits of the political leaders that will make Nigeria work: integrity, intelligence, competence, and imaginative and prescient,” he mentioned.
“While upkeep of the nice follow of manufacturing political leaders via the poll field have to be maintained, political events ought to, henceforth, agree to not undertake former navy leaders as get together leaders or as presidential/gubernatorial candidates.”
Adamolekun mentioned for Nigeria to realize federal democracy and financial prosperity, political leaders at each the central and sub-national ranges should undertake and implement a devolved federal system and commit, in phrase and in deed, to good democratic follow, mixed with administrative competence.
In his remarks, Gbenga Adefaye, the final supervisor/editor-in-chief, Vanguard Media Ltd, expressed dismay that the nation is just not listening to the voice of reasoning and knowledge from intellects and lecturers.
