"THE JUNE 12 AND THE PSEUDO-DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA IN 2013"

Many of the Nigeria's prominent politicians today have either directly or indirectly used the political struggles of the annulled June 12 presidential election and the mysterious death of the winner of that election in the person of the late Chief MKO Abiola to ascend into political power. The last 14 years of our so called democracy can be simply described as a political sham that is based primarily on the unabated official culture of corruption, the massive mismanagement of the Nigeria's oil wealth, lawlessness, the rule of brutality as well as the institutionalization of the electoral fraud system as a way in which we conduct our democracy and party politics. Nigerians have never enjoyed any truly fair, free and transparent elections since 1999 to date in all truth, honesty and reality.

Our politicians have built their political life on the dirty party politics that is based on the selection of their favorite candidates instead of the actual election of the popular or the majority choice. Mediocrity of the highest order has now replaced the any element of merit in our public life as a nation in 2013. The politics of godfatherism has taken over our existing political parties in and out. The do-or-die politics has fully replaced the spirit of sportsmanship. We now consider the religious faith of our politicians in all elections instead of their past track records or their capacities to deliver the goods. Our public offices have now become the easiest avenues for our public officials to acquire their ill-gotten wealth and to become billionaires overnight. Our religious institutions and their leaders have grown passive, indifferent and mute in the face of our bad and heavily corrupt political leadership in Nigeria. Our democracy has not worked in the last 14 years and it is certainly not going to work in the year 2015 with our present weak and sinking political foundation that holds this democracy in place. In conclusion and in my own personal judgement, a Sovereign National Conference is now inevitable for Nigeria to survive and to weather her very turbulent democracy either now or in the future as a nation in deep crises.