Legal expert says Jonathan’s administration is the worst since independence

Constitutional lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Robert Clarke has described Nigeria’s system of government as a civil form of government and not a democratic system of government.
Mr Clarke, made this know while evaluating Nigeria after its 52years of independence, stating that having experienced all the various system of government practiced by the country since, 1960, the current manner of government is the worst since the history of the country came into being and since the advent of democracy in 1999.
Clarke, who was speaking as a guest on Channels Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily, said “I have seen it pre-independence governance, I have seen first independence governance, I have seen military governance, I have seen the second republic governance and I am seeing now the so called third republic governance”.
Having a clear view of what the governance road has been before the Union Jack was lowered till now, the legal luminary said “I can assure you from my own experience, this is the worst since 1999, and this is the worst system of governance we have”.
He took a swipe at the president saying “I can assure you he (President Jonathan) cannot name twenty of his minsters off head”.
He also accused ministers and governors of having a long thread of aides that are paid for doing nothing with tax payers’ money.
Mr Clarke said the system of government being run in Nigeria is nowhere close to a democracy.
He said “Look let’s not deceive ourselves, we have no democracy in Nigeria, what we are running today in Nigeria is a civil form of government”.
He went further to explain what a true democracy is positing that it is “the entrenchment of institution”.
He said the institutions in Nigeria lack the autonomy to operate on their own, a trend he traced to Obasanjo’s civilian government that began in 1999.
“The police is still subservient to the governor, subservient to the president. The EFCC is still subservient to this..we have not entrenched the institutions we have to make them independent so that we can feel the effect of democracy”.
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