The former Nigeria’s ambassador to Brazil, Dr. Patrick Dele Cole, and former External Affairs Minister, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, who made the recommendations yesterday, on the heels of the resignation of the former Britain’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, said the fall of Johnson is a great lesson to Nigerian politicians.
Said he, “It is clearly now the will of the parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore, a new Prime Minister. The process of choosing that new leader should begin now…” Cole advised Nigerian politicians to learn from what other leaders do in their different countries, citing the recent case in New Zealand and the prompt effort of their president when the Muslims attacked a church recently.
Cole continued: “On the case of Boris, his story is very clear; it was the ministers who got rid of him. They put in their letters of resignation first and said this is not fit to be our ruler.
“The issue of ministers resigning, leading to an avalanche, which consumed the president, will not arise under our system, because the ministers are not elected, but appointed by him and he can dissolve them. It is the members of the National Assembly that he cannot suspend. “You get a Nigerian politician who says I am going to kill corruption before corruption kills you and that’s the only thing the president is cheered on, then you are going to end up overlooking the character defect of that particular politician and everyone votes him into office. Once that is done, you’ll have to leave with the character defects, just as the British had to live with character defect of Johnson until his cup runneth over.
He attended Eton College and read Classics at Balliol College, Oxford. He was elected president of the Oxford Union in 1986. In 1989, he became the Brussels correspondent, and later political columnist, for The Daily Telegraph, and was editor of The Spectator magazine from 1999 to 2005.
His generation must also fail,for him planning nd supporting the rendition of innocent man nnamdi kanu shame must always be his nd his family's,he will not know peace now his out Putin is still remaining all those his empty bla bla bla against Putin has become waisted talks
They run a parliamentary system of govt. not anywhere near what we practice here.
There is no comparison between the two please. Nigeria politicians deserve this 👇🏾
Nigeria politicains never learn.