Parliamentary system can resolve corruption woes – Ango Abdullahi

Leader of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Prof. Ango Abdullahi has said that the only way Nigeria can end corruption and the numerous challenges militating against it’s development is to replace the ‘corrupt and expensive’ presidential system with parliamentary system of government.
Professor Abdullahi, a former Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria said the major reason Nigeria is still in a state of confusion after almost 60 years of independence is the mistake of changing to presidential system from the parliamentary system of government that the country inherited from its colonial masters.
Addressing the launch of national moral awareness lecture organised by Moral Initiative of Nigeria with the theme: ‘Moral Decadence and the Future of Nigerian Youth’ at the weekend in Kaduna, Abdullahi said:”If I have the power, I will throw away this presidential system and return Nigeria to parliamentary system of government, because of so many reasons.
“The most important of those reasons is that, parliamentary system is not as expensive as the one we operate today.
Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto led the entire Northern Nigeria alone with just few people and a governor in Kaduna.
This system we operate today does not give birth to anything other than waste, stealing and the corruption that we are all making noise about.
“But, in parliamentary system, you don’t become minister except you are elected from your constituency, which means that, you have where to account for your stewardship.
But today, once you master the acts of bootlicking, lying and hypocrisy, you will just be called to come and be commissioner or minister.
That is why we cannot stop talking about Sardauna.
“No matter how close you were to him, he never gave appointment to people who were not capable of delivering the responsibility.
He would tell you, you can’t handle this kind of responsibility, but, we will look for what you can do for you.
That is why you never saw lopsided appointment with him.
But today, what you hear is that, this one is my in law’s son, my friend’s son and so on,” he said.

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