Africa-Press – Nigeria. A lawyer and member of the 2014 National Conference, Goddy Uwazuruike, says strongman politics and the strongman mentality would lead the country to its doom if not stopped.
Uwazuruike spoke on Thursday while responding to questions in an interview on ‘The Morning Brief’, a programme on Channels Television.
“Strongman politics and strongman mentality is still on and will lead to our doom if we don’t stop it,” he said.
According to him, there is a clear difference between leadership under former presidents like Olusegun Obasanjo, Umar Musa Yar’Adua, and Goodluck Jonathan, compared to what has been experienced in the past ten years.
“Move forward to today and then contrast it with when Obasanjo was there, when Yar’Adua was there, when Jonathan was there. The executive, the opposition was thriving, the executive was thriving, the ruling party was thriving. But what is the news in the past ten years?
“Literally everybody in the opposition has moved to the ruling party because of the strongman syndrome. Whatever the President wants, he gets — they have said it even in this regime, in this administration, so nobody can think of saying, ‘No, Mr. President,’” he added.
Uwazuruike also cited Rivers State as an example, saying that strongman politics is what allows the President to make unilateral decisions that are immediately followed without question.
He further criticized the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari, saying that the hope Nigerians had in his leadership ended in disappointment.
Uwazuruike also expressed dismay over the current administration under President Bola Tinubu, suggesting that things have worsened despite promises of a renewed future.
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