The Leader of the Senate, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, has said that democracy remains the only option to resolve the challenges facing the country.
Ndoma-Egba, in a commemorative message to Nigerians in celebration of the nation’s Democracy Day, urged Nigerians to be stakeholders in the future of the country.
He said that while Nigerians have endorsed democracy as a system of government, it is more expedient to accept democracy as a medium of expression.
The statement, issued in Calabar, Cross River State on Monday, said: “Our democracy has matured and deepened. This is the longest interrupted episode of our democracy. We have moved from a transition of one term of a president to another term; and from one president to another president. Then one successful succession when even a president died in office.
“Our challenges – economic, social, political and security notwithstanding, democracy still offers us a veritable opportunity to negotiate, discuss and resolve these challenges; and the terms of our federalism to guarantee a stronger, more united, prosperous and secured Nigeria, based on equity, equality, secularity, justice and a rectitude in the public sphere.
“I congratulate Nigeria and Nigerians and urge all of us to be stakeholders in the future of our great country.”