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Political scientists in the country, under the aegis of the Political Science Association of Nigeria, have asked President Bola Tinubu to constitute a technical committee to look at the concept of liberal democracy and its practice in Nigeria, saying that it is the cause of challenges facing the country over the years.
Speaking with journalists in Ilorin on Friday, president of the association, who is also Professor of Political Science in the University of Ilorin, Hassan Ajisafe Salihu, raised the alarm that the sociopolitical and socioeconomic challenges bedeviling the country may continue, “because both capitalism and its offspring, liberal democracy, have been observed to suffer from perennial crisis, not only in Nigeria but everywhere in the world.”
Professor Salihu, who said that liberal democracy theory was developed as a form of complementing capitalism, added that liberal democracy is the political face of capitalism, which he said was not designed for commoners.
The university don said that there is no need going for another constitutional conference, judged by the cost and the situation of the economy in the country.
Thus, he advocated constitution of a technical committee to review and work on past efforts in constitutional conferences and bring out something that would help Nigeria to resolve most of our problems.
