Presidential System Failing Nigeria – APC Chieftain Cole

Tonye Cole of the Rivers State All Progressives Congress (APC), who is running for governor in the general elections of 2023, says Nigeria needs to reevaluate its current presidential form of governance.

The system is not appropriate for the nation, Cole emphasized.

“The majority of Africans are uneasy with the political systems that are in place in their countries,” he said on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday.

We must return to Nigeria and reexamine this American system, which we refer to as the Presidential system. A presidential system won’t function here, but we can import the UK’s parliamentary system and it will function here.

When asked if they are happy with their nation’s democracy and political system, every African would say that they are not. And why? “Because it is completely opposing to who we are,” he stated.

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Citing China and the Arab world as examples of nations that rejected Western political models, he asserted that every successful nation has created a system of governance specific to its own circumstances.

Insisting that Nigeria’s political system should be based on its own culture, the former APC gubernatorial candidate for Rivers State pointed out that the nation had an indigenous political structure prior to colonization and ought to think about reverting to it.

Let’s create a political system that is African and Nigerian-focused; we’ve already done so. Even when the slave trade was in effect, we had a governmental system in place before the arrival of the Europeans. Then what are we fleeing from? We’re aware of what to do,” he said.

He said that the Nigerian presidential system doesn’t work in part because it may be abused by a select few, and it hasn’t established any accountability-holding institutions.

In addition, the politician said Nigeria is creating institutions that are based on the British system, which he said is incompatible with Nigerian culture.