President Muhammadu Buhari says “cultivating neighbourliness’’ on individual and national level will deepen the values of democracy and speed up development process by saving the cost of delays and repairs.
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The Nigeria Labour Congress has urged the Federal Government to deepen democractic tenets that would end current poverty and hardship in the country.
That equity is done is justice itself to the man who seeks equity. Which is why the Isoko people have been clamouring for equity and justice in the distribution of ministerial positions from Delta State.
The President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has congratulated Nigerians on the country’s attainment of 20 years of uninterrupted democracy and urged the people to use democracy to institutionalize peace and genuine development.
The Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Peter Obi, has thanked God for sustaining democracy for 20 years in Nigeria.
A tale was told about a once very powerful Principal Officer of the National Assembly, who led a delegation of a major political party from Abuja to conduct a senatorial primary in Anambra State in 2014. This supposed democrat with many years of legislative experience, who ought to show example of how to promote democracy, especially internal democracy in a party, which should be an important democratic platform, allegedly landed with his team at the Asaba Airport, in neighbouring Delta State.
Former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, has faulted the kind of democracy practised in Nigeria as a system that cannot bring about the best in all spheres of our national interest.
The Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 elections, Atiku Abubakar has described the judiciary as truly the defender of Nigeria’s democracy.
The 2019 presidential elections may have come and gone, but the effects will be felt in Nigeria for a very long time. Apart from the 2007 general elections, the 2019 presidential elections is presently regarded as the worst in the nation’s history by a lot of Nigerians. The question on the mind of majority of Nigerians is, how can an electoral process that witnessed the highest amount of voter registration with over 80 million registered voters, voters card collection with nearly 73 million eligible voters and an election that was predicted to be the biggest in Africa’s history witness the lowest turnout in our nation’s electoral history according to data from the Independent National Electoral Commission. Turnout was just above 35 per cent of eligible voters.
President Muhammadu Buhari has appreciated former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for his continuous support for Nigeria and the growth of her democracy.
“Today, Democracy around the world faces its biggest crisis in decades, its foundations undermined by invective from on high and toxins from below, by new technologies that power ancient impulses, by a poisonous cocktail of strongmen and weakening institutions.
President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria’s democracy is improving steadily with deeper understanding of the culture and tenets among the people, and strengthening of the institutions that guarantee free and fair elections.
Mohammed gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, should have been given the boot the next day after he assumed office. That he has stayed this long in that office means he is stroking the right fingers. He is a telling example of why public offices should not be outsourced on the basis of loyalty.
Dr Orji Kalu, a former governor of Abia, has stressed the need for respect for the rule of law in order for democracy to thrive in the country.
Nicolet-dit-Félix, who gave the advice at the celebration of the 727th anniversary of the Foundation of fulfilment of the Swiss Confederation in Lagos, enjoined Nigerians to always rely on their votes and never resort to violence.
Gboyega Adeniji, the Secretary-General of CNPP in South-West, spoke in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
These critical issues formed discussions at the just-concluded 67th General Assembly and 2018 International Press Institute World Congress held in Abuja for the very first time in the history of Nigeria and attended by some 330 participants and 65 speakers from 37 countries.
Ogidi, who made the call in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja, said that developments in the polity were endangering democracy in the country.
Ajimobi, represented by the Commissioner for Health, Azeez Adeduntan, said this on Tuesday in Ibadan at a stakeholders’ conference to mark the 2018 International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.