An ex- governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke, has said that Nigeria has become a global threat, noting that the country has failed..
Speaking on Saturday at the Front-foot media initiative’s roundtable discussion held in Ikeja, Lagos, Duke stated that no political party can deliver the country from it’s current situation.
Lamenting the rot in the country, the former governor said,
” It is so deep that even trying to do the right thing is odd to many people.”
“The only hope we can have is judicial reform. Judicial reform is more pertinent than political reform.
“One of the weaknesses in our nation is the justice system. Without justice, you will have no peace and unity.
“The system is so endemically corrupted; no political party can get us out of the rot. None of the politicians I see today can help us out of this.
“Nigeria has gone beyond a failed state, we are now becoming a global threat because we have the capacity to go anywhere.”
The National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commissioner, Mohammed Haruna, who also spoke at the event stressed the need to strengthen Nigeria’s judicial system for accountability.
He called on the media to focus more on politicians’ conduct rather than the constitution.
He said,
“I am sure there is still a lot the media can do, I believe it is not the media alone that can hold politicians accountable.
“All of us have that responsibility to hold them accountable. I believe the media should lead the holding of institutions accountable to the public.
“Media holds the public the duty to bim its searchlight of political behaviour on those at the state and local government levels.”
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