Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state on Tuesday, May 29, expressed concern over Nigeria’s democracy, saying democracy in the western world, especially in the United States of America, has continued to flourish based on established moral values and ability to serve, The Punch reports.
NAIJ.com gathered that the Imo state state governor speaking at an interactive session with newsmen to mark the 2018 Democracy Day in Owerri, raised an alarm that religious sentiments had derailed the democratic process in the country.
Okorocha said Nigeria’s democracy is driven by sheer sentiment anchored on tribalism, geographical and religious backgrounds.
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He said: “We do not see democracy as it should be. Here, the Boko Haram sect and Hausa/Fulani herdsmen continue to torment us and we have not come together to fight these monsters.
Some people see the Boko Haram issue and that of the Indigenous People of Biafra as Hausa and Igbo affairs respectively but this perception cannot help us.”
NAIJ.com previously reported that as Nigeria marks another democracy day, Prince Tony Momoh, a former information minister, accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Nuhu Ribadu, founding chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), of destroying Nigeria’s democracy.
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Momoh said the duo did this by barring certain politicians from participating in the 2007 general elections without recourse to the rule of law.
Daily Independent reports the former minister as saying Ribadu breached the EFCC act which stipulates that he should charge alleged corrupt persons to court after completing his investigations.
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Source: Naija.ng