Nigeria in Dire Need of Right Calibre of Leaders – THISDAYLIVE

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Civil society activist, policy analyst and Executive Director of the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre, Clement Nwankwo in this interview with Onyebuchi Ezigbo says Nigeria currently lacks right calibre of people as leaders but lends his support for the clamour for adoption of unicameral legislature as the first step towards restructuring of nation’s political landscape

What is your assessment of 25 years of uninterrupted democracy in Nigeria?

I think it is significant that the country has had 25 years of uninterrupted democracy without military intervention given that before 1999, we have never had a period where the civilians held sway for more than four or five years, I think five times the number of years is significant and should mean that in some sense we are beginning to stabilize to some extent on how this country should be run which is by democratic civilian route. Unfortunately, the process of voting, the process of the conduct of elections…



Source: Thisday Newspaper