NAIJA NEWS
Renowned economist, Pat Utomi, has stated that the National Assembly is the worst thing that has happened to the country.
Utomi lamented that the country is a failure because the political class and the elites, particularly the legal elite lack alternative thinking to turn things around.
He argued that the National Assembly, which should be the platform for robust debates to turn around the nation’s fortunes, has been captured.
Utomi shared his grievances during an interview with Punch.
He said it was baffling that the Nigerian political class failed to recognise that the nation was presently at war, requiring a war cabinet where almost everybody pulls together to fix the nation’s problems.
He said, “Nigeria is a failure right now; democracy is not working. We all know that; anybody who does not know that is fooling himself. We have total judicial capture; we have legislative capture, so there is no alternative thinking in the country.
“For me, the worst thing that has happened to the country is the National Assembly because that is where you should have the kind of debates that will lead you to options, but you can’t because the whole place is captured.