As Nigerians mark this year’s democracy day,
political parties and their leaders have in their assessment of the state of
the nation, passed a low mark on the All
Progressives Congress (APC) administration, especially as it affects the
economy.
Alhaji
Sani Yagbagi, the National Chairman of the Action Democratic Party (ADP), in a chat with journalists in Abuja said Nigeria ’s democratic
experience has been largely turbulent since 1999, aside from the opportunity it
offered for freedom of choice and end to military rule.
“You
see if you look at the value of Naira which is the measure or determiner of
productivity of the economy, If anything, it has gone down, and by the day, it
is going down. So, democracy has not really brought much to the people in terms
of economy. I am talking in terms of deliverables, in terms of the economic
impacts on the people.
“You can talk of freedom, yes,
you have freedom of choice, but even that freedom of choice is also to a very
large extent being hijacked by rigging. So, often than not, you don’t find the
wishes of the people expressed, allowed to take routes really, what happens is
different from what people want”.
Yagbagi described the three years of the APC-led administration
as a tragedy.
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