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A lawyer, politician and political affairs analyst, Chima Nnaji, says Nigerian democracy is no longer working, stressing that greed has replaced ideology.
Nnaji stated this on Saturday during an interview on Arise Television monitored by DAILY POST.
According to him, the rising concentration of power in the ruling party, mass defection by elected officials and the erosion of constitutional safeguards signal a system that has stopped serving the people it was designed to protect.
“I don’t think democracy is working any longer. Most of these things are contrived, they are induced.
“So when a system is no longer delivering on its promise or purpose, that system has become useless so to speak,” he said.
The lawyer also alleged that political actors are manipulating constitutional provisions to legitimise defections.
The politician pointed out that lawmakers who abandon the parties under which they were elected often escape sanctions by engineering artificial divisions within their former parties.
