Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says Africa needs a democracy of its own context that delivers to all people.
Obasanjo said this in Abuja, while speaking at a Colloquium to mark the 60th birthday of former Imo Governor, Emeka Ihedioha, noting that to sustain democracy in the continent, Africa needed one that delivers to all people, not to few section.
He noted that the Greek model of democracy, ensured that all citizens participated directly in their affairs, adding that what was praticable now was a representative system, that does not taken care of everybody.
Baba Iyabo added that before the colonial rule, Africa practiced democracy, a system of government which attended to the needs of her people.
basanjo also lamented that in Africa, democracy was becoming a system of government by a small number of people over a large population.
“Is democracy failing in Africa? Are we talking of democracy or western liberal democracy?
“Abraham Lincoln describes it as a government of the people, by the people and for the people. But what do we have today?
“The Greek democracy affects everyone, but democracy has now become representative democracy and it doesn’t taken care of everyone.
“Democracy in Africa has failed because it’s not African, it doesn’t have our culture and way of lives.
“Democracy is dying in Africa and to save it, it should be made in the context of Africa,” Obasanjo said.
