The Nigerian Presidency has criticized former President Olusegun Obasanjo over comments he made on Monday where he said African countries should do away with what he termed ‘Western liberal democracy’ which has not worked for the continent.
While giving a keynote address at a two-day forum in Abeokuta, Ogun State, the former head of state had said Africa should adopt its own kind of democracy which he called ‘Afro-Democracy’ as the ‘Western liberal democracy’ does not take into account the continent’s history, culture and tradition.
He added that the borrowed style of democracy had failed in Africa because it did not consider the views of the majority of the people.
