The Campaign for Democracy on Saturday bemoaned the state of the country’s democracy in the last 12 years and said it had not grown.
Those who think otherwise, the group noted, were deceivers.
CD president, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, noted in a statement that such people belonged to the class who oppressed poor Nigerians and derived joy from the nations’ backward characteristics.
“While we cannot but acknowledge 12 years of uninterrupted civil rule, it is sad that, 18 years after, it’s been so far, so sad! While the sacrifices that went into the struggle to revalidate the annulled election cannot go unappreciated, it is particularly pathetic that the democratic height expected of the country is yet to be attained,” Odumakin said.
She said that while those who had struggled for the enthronement of democracy and the betterment of Nigeria had been consigned to the backstage in the day-to-day affairs of the country, those who had known next-to-nothing about the struggle for democracy as well as those who were practically opposed to the spirit of ‘June 12’ were now at the corridors of power unleashing on the country what she described as ‘democratic dictatorship.
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'Democracy has not grown in 12 years of civil rule'- Campaign for democracy
'Democracy has not grown in 12 years of civil rule'- Campaign for democracy
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Sunday, June 12, 2011
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I wonder what CD is talking about here. NADECO, never believed in Democracy of the nation, they believed in the enthronement of a man. The man died, the NADECO dream also died. As long as this nation is concern, our democracy is growing. We have witnessed the freest and fairest election on April 2011...
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