THE FALLACIES OF DEMOCRACY AND DEMOCRATIC DICTATORSHIP IN NIGERIA
By
Salim I. Hassan (Salimullah)
13/08/2009
Democracy is a peaceful way of
tyranny and subjugation of human rights; it is a reductionist of justice,
fallacious idea of rule of law and equality before the law. Yet, in Nigerian
democracy the powerful subjugates and dominates the right of the weak; the rich
still exploits the poor; those in power tyrannize and victimize their citizens;
those who wield power replace the elected leaders with whom they so wish by
betraying and rigging the election. Is
Democracy a universal concept of good governance or U.S hegemony? Democracy
is a fallacy, deceit and fraudulence. Obviously speaking, democracy denotes the
supremacy of U.S will and interest as it is imposed them upon other world
nations especially the Muslim ones. International perspective of democracy entails
that the world nations should be under the hegemony of U.S villain power. It
further means the predominance of U.S will and policy over the world. Even
though the West still desperately claims that democracy is good for all because
it advocate justice, rule of law, good governance, human right, liberty and
freedom, capitalism and secularism. All these aspect are good in democracy with
the exception of capitalism and secularism. The both of them are antithetical
to socio-moral values and standards of humanity. With this exception, all what
they have claimed to have been guaranteed for man under democracy is not
something new to our way of life (Islam/Shari’ah). All good aspects of
democracy that commands universal consent and regard is part of the principal
messages of Islam; they are part of essential aspect of life that are
fundamentally emphasized and enforced in Islam in favour of establishing the
standard values of humankind and for the development of their material,
spiritual, and moral well-being. Hence, it is irrational for the West to
introduce democracy to the Muslim world; and at the same time it is disgrace
for the Muslim world to be earnestly begging the West to borrow their system of
government when we have our own system (i.e. Shari’ah Ruling System which is
recently formulated anagrammatically into new English word as ‘ISLAMOCRACY’ to
take the place of Democracy in Muslim world) which is much more comprehensive
and more perfect than the Western Democracy. Though democracy has done more
good than bad in some developed countries it has lost its recommendable spirit
from the onset of its basis i.e. it usurps God’s sovereignty and transfers it
to man. That is to say, in democracy the will and laws of man is supreme over
the God’s divine laws. Let me remind you that you should never accepts any word
begins with a prefix “Demo”, for any word begins with “Demo” entails disgrace,
lowness, misfortune, unluckiness, disaster, and all
sort state of undesirable condition and situation. Think of the words like demotion,
demoniac, demobilization, démodé, and many more others all
of which denote undesirable and disgusting things and conditions/states.
Likewise, democracy should not be exempted from such category of evil words. As
thus, one needs not to repent when he declares that democracy is evil and bad
as far as Muslims are concerned. Let us only practice our Shari’ah Ruling
System which has come with all kind of good governance, rule of law, justice,
and rights of the people
These evil people (Jews – the
super-terrorists) have created their political tools to mislead, destabilize
and control the world and humanity, and these tools are: Democracy, Freedom of
Speech, Liberty Capitalism and Interest (Riba) and many more others. Directly
or indirectly, they constitutionalized bad and heretical laws in their
poisonous constitution which is highly barbaric, uncultured, uncivilized and
therefore utterly unislamocratic (i.e. it does not based on Islamic political
system of Shari’ah). In Democracy,
people are still being duped that through representatives their rights and
interests are ensured and protected. But the reality of the matter is that the
constituent representatives whom the citizens vote for to represent them and to
serve the public interest and will as soon as they enter into the Assembly
House they selfishly change their intention by serving their personal interest
and material ambition at the expense of the citizens’ right. However Democracy
still claims power in the hands of ordinary citizens. This is an absurd, a
fraudulent and a pretentious idea. In reality, the Democrats are manipulating
the will and the opinion of the people just to ensure their personal
vested-interest of gathering wealth illegitimately from the public funds.
I want to draw your attention as much
as possible to the tyrannical nature of Nigerian Democracy which has been a
major concern of worry in my mind. Democracy
supposes it is good, in Nigerian
it is bad and the situation is irony. One of the main features of Nigerian
democracy is tyranny, subjugation of citizens’ right, and dictatorship. Democracy is no longer a reality in Nigerian
but an illusion. It is completely dissolved in tyranny. The rulers are tyrants,
dictators, wicked and oppressors. The tyrannical nature of Nigerian leadership
has generated much more problems in the nation which complicated its problems,
predicaments, and political malaises. Political crimes like bribery,
corruption, loot of public/government funds, misuse of power to mention but a
few, have their ground from the effect of Nigerian leader’s tyranny and
dictatorship. While the social crimes like robbery, thievery, and e.t.c. is as
a result of such tyranny and injustice of the leaders. Hence, we can say that
it is from those leaders that all crimes and terrors exude. All acts of
Nigerian leaders – the good, the bad, and the evil – are unquestionable by the
citizens and are beyond reproachability; and yet Democracy continues to dupe us
that power of the government lies in the consent of the governed. Through
political immunity which the constitution granted them they can do whatsoever
they wish from misuse of power, looting government funds, tyrannizing the
citizens and violating the rule of law itself. The constituent representatives
too, at both state and national level of assembly are not really representing
the needs of the citizens; once they enter into assembly house they selfishly
turn to represent their wishful personal desires of material gains and lusts of
wealth.
Each
and everyone believe in no good governance in Nigeria. Our corrupt rulers are not
held accountable for their evil acts and crimes. Public funds are being looted
and the perpetrators were never committed into probe and trial before the law.
Worst of all is the fact that those corrupt leaders are completely immunized
from public accuses and blames. This grants them an ample chance and
opportunity to maltreat their people, to misuse the national funds, to
tyrannize the citizens and to do whatsoever they so wish and desire. The popular
notional aspect of Democracy is good governance, rule of law, social justice,
protection of citizens’ right and interest, social well fare provision. And the
very precious gift of Democracy is that it grants the ordinary citizens
independent right to elect freely their leaders as well as to depose him from
power if found guilty of corruption or misuse of power. But yet, despite of the
tyrannical behaviour of our leaders we have never even revolt against one of
them if not of deposing him from power. Hence such right for the citizens has
been a fallacy and an illusion in Nigerian Democracy.
Now
it is almost 10yrs of democracy in Nigeria but no one can prove a
single aspect of achievement or even an improvement. All the identified
problems affecting Nigeria
among others, corruption, injustice, economic instability, educational
downfall, instability of power and water supply, problem of health matters none
of them is resolved even partially per se. One may ask that is
governance/leadership in Nigerian a democratic or tyrannical? If it is
democratic then democracy must have been bad and evil; and if it is tyrannical
then the deposal of military regime from leadership does not make sense. The
ultimate conclusion is that whether democracy is bad or Nigerian leaders are
all evils, tyrannical and dictators. And in either case we are left with a
highly questionable situation. So then what is our problem? I think is that we
absolutely lack is the rule of law as such each and every evil and corrupt leader’s
act is unquestionable and above the law. our negligence of rule of law gives
the Nigerian leaders to act and behave whether good or bad as they so wish
since they are beyond questioning and reproachability.
So
then, is there any possible solution? To me I can say that People should wake
up from their deep slumber and repel this tyranny and depose the dictators from
power. These tyrannical leaders would never let free and fair election to take
place, for they know that would be the end of their tyranny and corruption. So,
then what is the significance of election system that is conducted
quadratically (i.e. after each 4yrs) in Nigeria when it does not represent
the true votes of the citizens. This is a critical and imperative question to
be asked. Since this election is full of rigging and corruption thence, it
should be suspended. In fact, we the masses I pity us compassionately because
the challenges ahead of us are very tremendous and difficult to tackle, however
it is necessary to take a bull by the horn. These bad leaders who are currently
on power are the exact dictators and corruptors who deprive us of our right,
freedom, and deny us justice and good governance. They are the wolves whom we
search for. As they are simultaneously wielding power they will never let any
recognized just and rectitude giant leader to assume power for they are aware
that once it happens they will perish. They will continue to wield this power
illegitimately; and they will continue preserving and distributing it
exclusively among their families and friends until you the majority oppressed
people strive energetically to depose them from power with violence or
otherwise. Hence, it is inevitable for you masses to undertake a formidable
intellectual and political revolution. We do not call to the assassination of
leaders but at least you should ban them your votes. You should refrain from
election when it comes for the next time. As such, on the very day of election,
instead of attending the election centre, you should march on streets for protests
and riots, and expose your majority to the world while explaining to them that
you shall no longer pursue any election until the Nigerian bad democracy and
its wicked and tyrant leaders are supervised and checked out by international
powers. This is what we suggest to our beloved brothers to adopt in order to
solve their political problem of corruption, bribery, tyranny, and exploitation
of their leaders.
