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With faulty structure, not even angels can make Nigeria work — Sani

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A former senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Sheu Sani, said on Monday the current political structure in Nigeria would impede the growth of the county democracy.

Sani, who stated this in Osogbo, Osun State, while delivering his welcome address at the opening ceremony of the Press Week organised by the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Osun Council, said the political structure in Nigeria would never work with an intolerant executive and a sycophantic legislature.

He said the 20-year uninterrupted democratic rule has graduated Nigeria’s democracy from being nascent.

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He said: “It is time to fairly access our democracy. Obviously, the system cannot perfectly work under intolerant executive, a sycophantic legislature, a timid judiciary and docile civil society.

“There is need for genuine restructuring to put things in the proper way. When we have a faulty structure, even if we have angels at the corridor of power, the system will still not work.

“Many people under 30 might not understand the pattern of military rule, and how it was used to be under a dictatorship. Their past is Jonathan while their present is Buhari.

“We need to make our youths to have a fair sense of history and commit them to the task of nation-building.”

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