Nigeria democracy day as a bespectacled devil | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

By its very intention, democracy leaves the human race with an attempt at bettering and reshaping the world until politicians stepped into the equation, society is then flung to the wall and a new meaning is introduced in the balance, now politics soils democracy to the point that democracy, especially as it is practiced in Nigeria has been reduced to just about ‘who gets what, when and how’.

Nigeria has had an uninterrupted democratic dispensation for 22 years and at all levels of governance, power has moved from one political party to the other, especially between the two major political parties – the APC and the PDP. The strength of character and the normative leadership quotient of the Nigerian leaders have been stretched and put to a validity test within the aforementioned years.

While the APC government of Buhari received a lot of commendation on the aforementioned, here is where I find the contradiction in the policies of this government. The APC government since its ascension to power has stood against the most critical tenet of democratic principles which are the fundamental rights of the Nigerian citizens to express themselves, assemble freely and protest against draconian government policies as guarantee by the 1999 Constitution as amended.

By the administration’s constant threat to media houses and the incessant clampdown on their operations through the National Broadcasting Commission, the constitutional rights of the press as provided for in section 22 of the 1999 Constitution as amended is stifled. The NBC, in most occasions under this regime steps outside the confines of the powers provided for it in its Act to threaten sanctions to media houses even those not resident in the Nigerian soil.

Just recently, the government of Nigeria suspended Twitter – a micro-blogging site from operations in Nigeria because president Buhari’s twit was deleted. A twit wherein the president deployed genocidal threats and insensitive utterances that went against Twitter policy.

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