WESTERN OR AFRO DEMOCRACY?

WESTERN OR AFRO DEMOCRACY?
                        By:
            Nurudeen Dauda
            November 22nd,2023
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Permit me to add my voice on the African and or Nigerian situation. Former President Obasanjo together with other prominent Nigerians held a consultation meeting on the 20th of November, 2023, in Abeokuta where he scapegoated "liberal" democracy for our "backwardess" and instead advocated for "Afro" democracy .

In my thought, we do not currently practice "liberal" democracy as we claim we do , but we practice "Afro" democracy intead. We should rather "replace" our current "Afro" democracy which is generally characterized with bad governance, election rigging, suppression popular will through electoral violence, do or die syndrome, vote buying, tenure elongation, and seat-tight syndrome etc.

In most of the advanced "liberal' democracies that we claim we practice there are good governance, peaceful elections, relatively free and fair elections, expressions of free choices,  political legitimacy, seamless transitions, and application of "rules" and "regulations" to the "rich" and the "powerful" not only to the "weak" and the "poor".

In my thought, the fundamental problem of the Sub-sharan Africa and or black Africa is not about the "system", but is about its "leadership". Our experiences of both successive military and civilian regimes show that good governance is badly needed, but is sadly lacking. Is it high time we begin to build our "conversation" on the black African leadership Psychology and or Psychology of leadership rather than scapegoating the "system". Whether "western" or "African" and or "Arabian" democracy for as long as we have "dearth" of patriotic leadership it will make no difference.

Our problem revolves around the "leaders" who "operates" the "system" not the "system" itself. Our general "psychology" of "leadership" and or "leadership psychology" is what "needs" to be gotten "right" in the first place. For us to get it right, we must insist on "patriotic", honest, committed, people- centred, result- oriented, selfless, and visionary leadership.

In my observation, our problem is not lack of good "laws" or "policies", and or "programmes" etc. We have one of the best policies, programmes, and laws etc., around, but our problem is "by-passing" the laws or rules and or regulations.We have poor and or non- implementation of our policies and programmes. We lack policies and programmes continuity no matter how their importance to development. 

However, this does not in any way "suggest" the "adoption" of "liberal" democracy as the only system and or any other system. After all there is no universal liberal democratic practice anywhere in the world. My argument is centred on the need to build our conversation or discussion and or dialogue on the right leadership needed for our development regardless of whatever system we practice. 

May God bless Nigeria!

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