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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has declared that Western Liberal Democracy has failed in Africa because it was \u2018forced\u2019 on the continent.<\/p>\n
The former President, who stated this while delivering his keynote address at a high-level consultation on \u2018Rethinking Western Liberal Democracy for Africa\u2019, in Abeokuta, Ogun State, noted that the Western Liberal Democracy will never work as a system of government in Africa because it does not take into account the view of the majority of the people.<\/p>\n
Obasanjo described Western Liberal Democracy as a \u201cgovernment of a few people over all the people or population and these few people are representatives of only some of the people and not full representatives of all the people. Invariably, the majority of the people are wittingly or unwittingly kept out.\u201d<\/p>\n
While he advocated for \u201cAfro democracy\u201d in place of Western liberal democracy, he said African countries have no business in operating a system of government in which they have no hand in its \u201cdefinition and design.\u201d<\/p>\n
His words: \u201cThe weakness and failure of liberal democracy as it is practised stem from its history, content and context and its practice.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce you move from all the people to a representative of the people, you start to encounter troubles and problems. For those who define it as a rule of the majority, should the minority be ignored, neglected and excluded?<\/p>\n
\u201cIn short, we have a system of government in which we have no hands to define and design and we continue with it, even when we know that it is not working for us.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose who brought it to us are now questioning the rightness of their invention, its deliverability and its relevance today without reform.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe essence of any system of government is the welfare and well-being of the people; all the people. Here, we must interrogate the performance of democracy in the West where it originated from and with us the inheritors of what we are left with by our colonial powers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are here to stop being foolish and stupid. Can we look inward and outward to see what in our country, culture, tradition, practice and living over the years that we can learn from, adopt and adapt with practices everywhere for a changed system of government that will service our purpose better and deliver?<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to think out of the box and after, act with our new thinking. You are invited here to examine clinically the practice of liberal democracy, identify its shortcomings for our society and bring forth ideas and recommendations that can serve our purpose better, knowing human beings for what we are and going by our experiences and the experiences of others.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are here to think as leaders of thought in the academia and leaders of thought with some experience in politics.\u201d<\/p>\n
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