YOUTH SUPPORT FOR PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM BY 2023 WILL NEUTRALIZE INSECURITY IN NIGERIA PERMANENTLY!

The covetous Nigerian political class whose only stock- in-trade is to perpetuate itself in office till death has surreptitiously moved to break the ranks of the Youths through the divide-and-rule tactics!

It is evident that Nigerian Youths are warming up to vie for political offices, appointments and also to acquire positions in party administrative structure as the 2023 General Elections approach, especially in the two major political parties – All Progressives Congress (APC), and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), BUT from all available information, they are being sidelined!

For instance, some APC Youths are lamenting over marginalization by the Caretaker Committee dominated by older members who deliberately debarred them from necessary/relevant information before and during party primaries held to pick delegates for the Convention slated for 26th February, 2022! So also are the Youths in the PDP!

HAS APC FORGOTTEN THAT BUHARI SIGNED NOT-TOO-YOUNG-TO-RULE BILL INTO LAW WITH FEAR AND TREMBLING?

Before the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari signed the “Not-Too-Young-To-Rule Bill” on 31st May, 2018 into law, he got a fool-proof assurance [a caveat], from Nigerian Youths that their political ambition as future leaders would not jeopardize his second term bid in view of the opposition’s desperation to derail him at all costs during the Presidential Election of 2019!

INSECURITY STEMMED FROM INSTITUTIONAL CORRUPTION!

It is common knowledge that the Nigerian insecure environment has reached an unacceptable crescendo but from all indications the All Progressives Congress (APC), seven-year administration has equally failed like its previous PDP predecessors in taming the monster!

Except for Nigerian political jobbers, it is crystal clear to averagely educated citizens that the choice of presidential system of government by the Military (1979-2022), that craves for enormous funding, for an emerging democracy and a developing third world African country like Nigeria was deliberately ill-conceived to provide a veritable ground for corruption to thrive!

And that Nigeria is acclaimed through international indexing as World Poverty Capital, could not be contested for obvious manifestations of massive corruption in all sectors of its economy – and among players within the three tiers of government who have become ridiculously wealthy through the very attractive Presidential Oligarchy at the expense of the over 95% of the poverty-stricken mass of citizens!

In spite of the economic deficits due to hyper inflation claimed to have reduced from 17.68% to15.63%, a badly-devalued currency at NGN415 naira to USD$1 dollar, consecutive debt-ridden budgets from 2015 to date, external debt portfolio of NGN38.00 trillion naira, and annual debt-servicing sum of NGN1.02 trillion naira from January-September 2021 and unemployment statistics of 33%; the President and his cronies have carried on business as usual! They print, borrow and spend monies “yanfun yanfun” (anyhow), like they have any credible source of income outside of CRUDE OIL
PROCEEDS AND THE ONE MILLION PROPAGANDA PADDY RICE PYRAMID OF ABUJA –now being sold to millers across Nigeria!

OTHER APC PRODIGAL EXPENSES AT AN AUSTERE TIME SUCH AS THIS!

1) The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), with an annual budget of NGN40 billion naira requested NGN305 billion to conduct the 2023 General Elections and has collected NGN100billion advance; (2) Politicians have been granted permission to spend various amounts of money ranging from NGN5billion to NGN70million naira – which is the least, for election financing to actualize their dreams as followsa) Campaign finance, for a Presidential aspirant was raised to NGN5 billion naira, - a 400% increase from the former NGN1billion!(b) Governors – NGN1billion.(c) Legislators, NGN100million & 70million respectively a grand plan to EXCLUDE, THE YOUTHS, WOMEN, AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, from governance at all levels of the political process!
2) Civil Servants have been granted 100% New Duty Tour Allowance at this austere period!
3) National Assembly (NASS), is considering 55 Amendments to the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that would conservatively gulp not less than NGN5billion naira in execution considering past exercises!
4) Accusation by Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), that lawmakers are siphoning money by using medical outreach, and agencies as cover-ups!They were also accused of padding the 2022 Budget with an amount totaling NGN36.59 billion naira for National Assembly’s projects in the Service Wide Vote!
5) Mr. President has reiterated for the umpteenth that he would continue to borrow from internal/external sources to boost Presidential System NEEDS, for salaries, allowances and CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES until he bows out in 2023!

THE CRITICAL MASS OF NIGERIAN YOUTHS SHOULD COME TO THE RESCUE NOW!

Nigerian Youths made an unambiguous but very articulate statement through #EndSars protests in October 2020 that citizens could no longer be governed by charlatans and the mediocre whose permanent interest in politics is aggrandizement and not diligent service to the polity!

It is worthy of note however that sanity prevailed in spite of disputed number of casualties on both sides and that Federal Government accepted and have implemented the FIVE-FOR-FIVE demands which bother on disbandment of Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS), Enhancement of Police Salaries etc, but REJECTED TRIBUNAL RECOMMENDATIONS over the indictment of security forces in a manner that exposed APC’s inconsistent policies in respect of the security and welfare of the down-trodden talakawas!

TIME FOR YOUTHS TO ACTUALIZE THE NEW NIGERIA DREAM TO DUMP PRESIDENCY FOR PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM IS NOW!

The campaign to dump Presidential System for UNICAMERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM has gained momentum and bi-partisan Nigerian Youths MUST JOIN THE MOVING TRAIN NOW! PLEASE FIND BELOW THE REASONS WHY PARLIAMENTARY IS BETTER THAT PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT!
1) It is unicameral – one House known as Cabinet form of government and also “Responsible Government.”
2) It is cost friendly, cost effective because legislative aspirants need not campaign across the entire country BUT within their locality – their constituencies!
3) All successfully elected parliamentarians would appoint from among themselves the leader the Party with the majority votes as Prime Minister [PM], who becomes Head of Government.
4) In a Unicameral Legislature, there are two Executive posts, namely: the PM (the real executive) and the ceremonial executive who serves as figurative Head of State and concurs with Cabinet activities as obtained when Nigeria became a Republic between 1963 and 1966, during the administration of Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa and President Nnamdi Azikiwe.
5) Day to day Cabinet proceedings are not run on the pages of newspapers or other media networks like in a presidential system. From time to time members of the public are briefed as appropriate by the PM or any delegated minister of the Cabinet!
6) There is no specific tenure of office for the PM as it obtains in a presidential system. A PM remains in office for as long as he or she performs creditably! It could be one month or three; one year or three years as the case may be! It could even be ELEVEN YEARS like the “Iron Lady”, late Mrs.Margaret Thatcher (1979-1990)!
7) The Executive PM who is a product of the Legislative is responsible to the Legislators (his colleagues the parliamentarians), with whom he shares a collective responsibility of the whole Council because he and his Ministers are elected from among other members of Parliament (always addressed as the Lower House or in Britain as the House of Commons), because the so-called common but very efficient citizens who dwell among their peers are able to run efficient and effective governments! Towards the close of the last Quarter of 2021, the British Government encouraged its citizens to apply for loans of one digit interest (because it had a deep vault), to purchase personal houses while Nigeria’s presidential operators are even borrowing from dormant/dead citizens accounts to pay salaries of civil servants!
A Prime Minister could resign at any time instead of being kicked out through “A VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE”!

CONCLUSIONS:

THE PARLIAMENT AT FEDERAL, STATES, REGIONAL OR GEO-POLITICAL ZONES MUST BE ESTABLISHED WITH THE SUCCINCT SUPPORT OF ALL NIGERIAN YOUTHS THROUGH POPULAR REFERENDUM!

Nigeria’s general elections are just one calendar year away therefore the following steps MUST be taken to achieve a sustainable Parliamentary System in Nigeria from 2023.

Step One. The SENATE must be shut down on or before 31st March, 2022.
Step Two. House of Representatives (HOS), should be pruned from 360 to 74 (ie, two representatives from each State and the Federal Capital Territory).
Step Three: Members of the HOR working with a secretariat of digital administrative team would convoke a Constituent Assembly that will craft a NEW PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUTION within the Second Quarter (April – June 2022).
Step Four: The Parliamentary Constitution will give detailed analysis of how the new system will work out in the 774 Local Government Areas of the country as set out in the heading of this section above.
Step Five: The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), will swing into action from June 2022, to prepare for elections according to constitutional guidelines that would usher a PRIME MINISTER INSTEAD OF A PRESIDENT IN 2023!

IT TOOK ELEVEN MONTHS FOR GENERAL ABUBAKAR PRODUCE THE 1999 CONSTITUTION AND EX-GENERAL OBASANJO AS PRESIDENT!
Military maximum ruler, Sanni Abacha died 8th June 1998; General Abudulsalami Abubakar took over, produced the 1999 Constitution, registered new political parties, conducted fresh elections with military fiat that produced ex-General Aremu Obasanjo who was sworn as President on 29th May 1999 - all within a period of ELEVEN MONTHS!

IN THE ABSENCE OF MILITARY FIAT, NIGERIANS HAVE THE OPTION OF REFERENDUM TO ACHIEVE THE PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM IN NIGERIA IN TWELVE MONTHS (FEBRUARY 2022 TO FEBRUARY 2023! AMEN!

[WATCH OUT FOR A NIGERIAN PRIME MINISTER – NOT A PRESIDENT IN 2023!]




I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, 08130669886, 08080243066. g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.

Thaz true.
Engage the youth so that Yahoo Yahoo, carnibalism and kpurumiri abuse will reduce.
Say no to cannibalism of your kingsmen

Best thing to adopt for our country is parliamentary
system of government.But for the youths please forget that they are not interested all of them want to be comedian, musician and actor. Instagram and Twitter including tik to is ruining our youths lives.