Fayemi Advocates Alternative System of Politics for Nigeria
Former Governor Kayode Fayemi has advocated an alternative system of politics because the constitutional democracy which Nigeria is practicing is not working.
He said that the proportional representation system would address the challenges posed by the winner takes-all politics in Nigeria’s politics.
He made the call in Abuja on Tuesday at an event marking the sixtieth birthday anniversary and book launch of Professor Udenta Udenta.
Fayemi explained that under the alternative political system, any candidate who scored 37 per cent of the total votes would not be declared winner of an election.
Instead, each of the candidate would be allocated percentage of the government according to the number of votes obtained in the poll.
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He faulted the constitutional democracy that Nigeria is practicing which allows any candidate who scored majority of the votes cast to be declared as winner.
“Today, I read former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s interview in the cable saying our liberal democracy is not working and we need to revisit it. And I agree with him, we must move from political alternative, I think we are almost on a dead end of that,” Fayemi said.
“What we need is alternative politics and my own notion of alternative politics is that you can’t have 35 per cent of the vote and take 100 per cent. It won’t work. We must look at proportional representation so that the party that is said to have one 21 per cent of the vote will have 21 per cent of the government. Adversaries politics bring division and enmity.
“All political parties in the country agreed and they even put in their manifesto that subsidy must be removed. We all said subsidy must be removed. But we in ACN at the time in 2012, we know the truth sir but it is all politics. That is why we must ensure that everybody is a crucial stakeholders by stopping all these.
“Let the manifesto of PDP, APC, Labour Party be put on the table and select all those who will pilot the programme from all parties.”
