Aboriginal democracy’ll end ethnicity, religious bigotry ― Okotie

The Founder of Household of God Church, Rev Chris Okotie, has said Aboriginal Democracy, if adopted, would eliminate the divisive tendencies in religion and ethnicity ahead of the 2023 general election.

Okotie, who has been campaigning for the inauguration of an interim government with the main objective of restructuring the country, said it was regrettable that despite the complex problems plaguing the nation, religion and ethnicity continue to define the political debates in the current electioneering campaigns.

The former presidential aspirant said this in a statement issued on Sunday by his media adviser, Ladi Ayodeji.

He stated: “It is preposterous to expect any miracle from the next president who is elected under a faulty political system like we now operate.

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“Candidates in this election are playing the traditional ethnic and religious card to win the support of the electorate instead of backing the call for a restructured federation, which would eliminate all the fault lines that compel those jostling for political offices to be shooting tribal and religious arrows to win election.

‘That is why I have said repeatedly that the present transition programme is a journey in futility.”

Okotie added that only an interim government would be able “to midwife the Aboriginal Democracy, which is really an indigenous, home-grown system of government, suitable for our peculiar cultural, and political circumstances.

“We appear not to realise that the apparent inability of the past governments since 1999 to meet the expectations of Nigerians, is because the presidential system we are practicing is an aberration.”

The Star