₦airaland Forum

Democracy as defined by the third edition of the Oxford Learners Dictionary is said to be the government of the people elected by the people for the people. A situation were Leaders are elected through the ballot.
Three tiers of government are recognized to be the federal, state and local governments. Three arms of government exist in Nigeria, the executive, judiciary and the legislative arm of respectively.
From Sulaiman Nasiru article on Nigeria and her democracy, he said “certainly the present situation in Nigeria was not what our founding fathers dreamt of, they never envisaged a nation with many troubles like what we are witnessing today, yes it is true that the marriage that brought us together was hastily arranged without due consideration of many factors”.
We cannot talk about the disturbing issues in our democracy without talking about the big monster corruption and abuse of public office. The active actors like the arms and tiers of government live extravagant and glamorous life styles. Having an empire of resources and a huge poor followership. This people have their own democratic norms and believes saying the majority will always have their say but the minority will always have their way.
We call on all well-meaning Nigerians who are the true custodians of our democracy to vote wisely and make sure their votes count. In the words of Dr Ken Ken Saro-Wiwa that says a denial of right is a call for fight we urge all true democrats to entrench the fundamental rights of us all.
The democratic rascality practised in our beloved country should be done away with as the concept of democracy should be practised holistically. Let our standard of living reflect the true practise of democracy and let us all be a participatory in our democracy.

http://talkarenang..com.ng/2016/05/democracy-in-nigeria-disturbing-issues.html

Nigeria is not a democracy. What we have is civilian rule

jerseyboy:
Nigeria is not a democracy. What we have is civilian rule

Explain please.