The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto
Diocese, Bishop Matthew Kukah, on Tuesday disclosed that Nigeria is yet to
fully embrace democratic norms and values.
Kukah
made this known during a town hall meeting on ‘Fixing Nigerian elections’ which
was organised by YIAGA.
According
to him, the military intervention in the nation’s politics has made the system
to be so quarrelsome.
Kukah berated the
judiciary for undermining the wishes of the people while hearing cases relating
to elections.
We are mistaken in assuming that we
have had a transition from dictatorship to democracy. We still haven’t.
“This is why we are showing all kinds
of systemic malfunctioning. When we talk about political parties, we have
assumptions. The truth of the matter is that in our own case, in Nigeria, we
have the greed and the political interest.
“Clearly what we have in Nigeria, as
we have seen with the occasional malfunctioning of the system midway through
the journey, manifested in the quarrelsomeness nature of the process and the
way the judiciary has now come to undermine the wishes of the people,” he said.
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