WE MUST CONTINUE TO GROW AND NURTURE OUR DEMOCRACY- SEN. ADEOLA

The senator representing Lagos West senatorial District, the largest senatorial district in Nigeria in terms of population, Senator Solomon Adeola has called on all Nigerians to continue to actively participate in our democratic practice as this is the only way to grow, nurture and strengthen all the institutions of the system f government.

In his message to Nigeria as the nation marks 28 year of unbroken democratic practice signed my his Special Adviser on Media, Kayode Odunaro, Senator Adeola said that generally, we as a nation has not done badly in running our democracy as well as creating strong democratic values and institutions that makes it difficult for anyone to contemplate any rule outside democracy.

“Using myself as an example, I have been part of the democratic process for the last 14 years as a duly elected legislator, twice at the state legislature, once at the House of Representatives and now in the highest legislative body the Senate. By all standards I am not a novice in the business of legislature which is the heartbeat of any democratic system. In the same vein, at 18 years of unbroken democratic rule with Nigeria overcoming democratic challenges and sometimes desperate economic situation, we can only continue to grow our democracy to greater heights like other advanced democracies” he stated.

Senator Adeola said that in spite of the unique challenges that the nation has faced under democratic rule including the demise of a sitting president, the need for the practice of true federalism and the need to democratize economic dividends of democracy for the majority, we can beat our chest that our democracy is work in progress and we have not done badly.

The senator said the seeming frictions or disagreement between the executive arms and the legislature in a democracy is not an aberration adding that what is important is that the two arms must work in national interest and not for selfish or individual institutional gain or ego.

“Above all we must be grateful to God for seeing us this far as a nation coming from the background of a civil war and succession of military rule. We need to pray more for our leaders and the nation at this point in our history” he stated.