{"id":162870,"date":"2025-05-17T10:45:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T09:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/presidential-system-not-working-in-nigeria-apc-chieftain-cole"},"modified":"2025-05-17T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T10:52:10","slug":"presidential-system-not-working-in-nigeria-apc-chieftain-cole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidential-system-not-working-in-nigeria-apc-chieftain-cole","title":{"rendered":"Presidential system not working in Nigeria \u2013 APC chieftain, Cole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Rivers State All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in the 2023 general elections, Tonye Cole, says Nigeria must reconsider its current presidential system of government.<\/p>\n<p>Cole insisted that the system is not suitable for the country.<\/p>\n<p>He made this statement on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today on Friday, stating that most people in Africa are uncomfortable with the political systems practiced in their respective countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis American system that we call the Presidential system in Nigeria, we need to go and readdress it. We cannot import the parliamentary system of the UK and it will work here, we cannot import a presidential system, it will not work here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery African in their country, are they satisfied with the political system they have and the democracy they have, they will tell you no. Why? Because it is contrary to who we are, absolutely contrary,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, every successful country has developed a system of government tailored to its unique context, citing Arab nations and China as examples of countries that rejected Western political models.<\/p>\n<p>The former Rivers State APC gubernatorial flag bearer stressed that Nigeria\u2019s system of government should be rooted in its own culture, noting that the country had an indigenous political structure before colonization and should consider returning to it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet us build an African, Nigerian focused political system and we have had it. We had a political system before the Europeans came, we had a political system even when the slave trade was going on. So, what are we running away from? We know what to do,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that part of the reasons the presidential system cannot work in Nigeria is because it can be exploited by a few people, adding that it has not built institutions that can hold people to account.<\/p>\n<p>The politician further stated that Nigeria is building institutions that are modeled after the British system which he noted cannot be accommodated by the Nigerian culture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Rivers State All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in the 2023 general elections, Tonye Cole, says Nigeria must reconsider its current presidential system of government. Cole insisted that the system is not suitable for the country. He made this statement on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today on Friday, stating that most people in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":162869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[3052,8858,254],"class_list":["post-162870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-apc-chieftain","tag-cole","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Presidential system not working in Nigeria \u2013 APC chieftain, Cole - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rivers State All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in the 2023 general elections, Tonye Cole, says Nige ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidential-system-not-working-in-nigeria-apc-chieftain-cole\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Presidential system not working in Nigeria \u2013 APC chieftain, Cole\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rivers State All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in the 2023 general elections, Tonye Cole, says Nige ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidential-system-not-working-in-nigeria-apc-chieftain-cole\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-17T09:45:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-17T10:52:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1747466554.090072.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidential-system-not-working-in-nigeria-apc-chieftain-cole#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidential-system-not-working-in-nigeria-apc-chieftain-cole\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Presidential system not working in Nigeria \u2013 APC chieftain, Cole\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-17T09:45:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-17T10:52:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidential-system-not-working-in-nigeria-apc-chieftain-cole\"},\"wordCount\":349,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidential-system-not-working-in-nigeria-apc-chieftain-cole#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1747466554.090072.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"apc chieftain\",\"Cole\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidential-system-not-working-in-nigeria-apc-chieftain-cole#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidential-system-not-working-in-nigeria-apc-chieftain-cole\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidential-system-not-working-in-nigeria-apc-chieftain-cole\",\"name\":\"Presidential system not working in Nigeria \u2013 APC chieftain, Cole - 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