{"id":198771,"date":"2020-03-04T14:32:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T13:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=198771"},"modified":"2020-03-04T14:32:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T13:32:46","slug":"military-era-better-than-nigerias-current-democracy-says-senator-smart-adeyemi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=198771","title":{"rendered":"Military era better than Nigeria&#8217;s current democracy, says Senator Smart Adeyemi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Senator Smart Adeyemi representing Kogi West Senatorial District on Wednesday argued that the system of democracy being practiced in Nigeria currently has been criminalized.<br \/>\nHe stated this while making contributions to \u201ca bill for an Act to establish the National Electoral Offences Commission and for Other Related matters.\u201d<br \/>\nAdeyemi gave instances how hooligans emerge as leaders, noting that the situation has painted Nigeria\u2019s democracy in bad light to the extent that people look at all politicians as criminals.<br \/>\nHe said:<br \/>\n\u201cMr. President, when people of questionable character become leaders, then what is the future of that country. In fact, I am compelled to say, military era is better than Nigeria\u2019s democracy currently.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen you talk about maladministration and misappropriation of public funds, it emanates from people who have criminal records, people who have no background were elected or forced themselves into power.<br \/>\n\u201cMr. President, this is one of the best bills that we must all support.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are living witnesses to bad governance and bad representation in parliament. We must support this bill to bring good people into power, not charlatans, not ragamuffin.<br \/>\n\u201cPeople who have criminal records come to the National Assembly to make laws.<br \/>\nReacting to the statement, Senate President, Dr Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan said, military era was not preferable to democracy as posited by Senator Adeyemi.<br \/>\nHe said that the Kogi lawmaker was entitled to his opinion, saying that he made the comment in his personal capacity.<br \/>\n\u201cThe position of this chambers is that democracy is better than military era and Senator Adeyemi is entitled to his opinion\u201d, Senate President noted.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Smart Adeyemi representing Kogi West Senatorial District on Wednesday argued that the system of democracy being practiced in Nigeria currently has been criminalized. He stated this while making contributions to \u201ca bill for an Act to establish the National Electoral Offences Commission and for Other Related matters.\u201d Adeyemi gave instances how hooligans emerge as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[10998,1111],"class_list":["post-198771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-obj","tag-sani-abacha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/198772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}