Chris Okotie Advances More Reasons To Scrap Presidential System

<h4>Chris Okotie Advances More Reasons To Scrap Presidential System<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p>OpenLife Nigeria&comma; again&comma; republishes Reverend Chris Okotie&&num;8217&semi;s fresh proposition for Nigeria&&num;8217&semi;s democratic system&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The music star turned man of God says current democratic practice fuels corruption&period; He therefore advocates a change of system&period; His thoughts are reproduced below<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Presidential system of governance&colon; Nigeria’s second attempt at democratising the elective process has become inimical and subversive to the Nigerian cause&period; It has polarised the polity&comma; balkanised the Nigerian society and fractured the whole confederacy of the Nigerian brotherhood&period; It has elevated corruption to an institution of byzantine complexity&semi; hence&comma; it must be jettisoned from the boat of national progress&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I am&comma; therefore&comma; proposing an Interim Government that I call Government of National Reconciliation and Reconstruction that would introduce the concept of aboriginal democracy which is the mechanical instrumentality for the crystallisation of the new Nigeria of our dreams&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Aboriginal democracy will bring democracy back to the people because the classical definition of democracy that we know&colon; government of the people&comma; by the people and for the people is not what is obtained in Nigeria&period; Our own experience is government of the Party&comma; by the Party and for the Party&period; That is a jactitation of democracy &lowbar; it is a false verisimilitude&period; I am proposing a government from the people&comma; for the people and with the people&semi; which is truly the democratic definition&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the practise of aboriginal democracy&comma; there will be no legislature&period; Legislative powers will be given to professional associations that are already in the polity because the House of Assembly works through committees&period; There are 57 standing committees in the Senate and 89 in the House of Representatives&period; These committees only replicate what already exists in the polity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I am proposing that legislative powers be given to these organisations that have been in the system predating these current set of political parties&period; The Nigerian Bar Association &lpar;NBA&rpar; was founded in 1933&period; The Nigerian Union of Teachers &lpar;NUT&rpar; was founded in 1931&period; The Nigerian Medical Association &lpar;NMA&rpar; was founded in 1951&semi; Academic Staff Union of Universities &lpar;ASUU&rpar;&comma; in 1978&period; So&comma; if powers are given to these associations&comma; they would reduce the financial burden that we have been encumbered with&lowbar; spending billions to sustain an institution that already exists within the polity&period; If there are no legislators&comma; then there will be no need for political parties&period; If there are no political parties&comma; then there will be no need for governors&comma; ministers or commissioners because these are political offices deriving from the Presidential system&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One of the things we will address will be elimination of the legislature&period; Power will be given to professional associations who band together&colon; doctors banding together&semi; lawyers banding together&semi; market women banding together by a concept of gregarious socialisation&period; They have ties of professional consanguinity and have established an organic nexus by way of enterprise and endeavour&period; They will be far more reliable than the elitist club called the legislature&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I speak with all due respect within the confines of conventional propriety&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;