Chief Akinjide spoke on the country’s presidential system of government and concluded that we are not yet practicing pure presidential system of government. Look at the seizure of the Lagos State local government funds by the Federal Government, despite the ruling, by the Supreme Court, the funds were not released. Now if you look at military rule, the military rulers don’t pretend to believe in the rule of law and therefore there is no question of democracy, the same thing with communist rule. When you have a federal system of government, you have three tiers in the case of Nigeria; the local, state and the federal government and each tier is sovereign in the constitution, within the powers allocated to it. So because of poor education they don’t understand the true meaning of democracy and because of their poor background of poverty when they have the opportunity the first thing is to steal state money. Read More