Former Deputy Senate President, Alhaji Ibrahim Mantu, has lamented the growing intolerance among politicians and urged them to nurture internal democratic cultures within their parties as a panacea.
Mantu, who stated this in Abuja, on Thursday, cautioned against ‘do-or-die’ politics and stressed the need for political actors to “imbibe the culture and values of tolerance to one another’s points of view.”
He spoke shortly after his inauguration as the Chairman, National Advisory Council, Save Democracy Group.
He maintained that there was a compelling need to reform the polity and allow the choices of the party members and the electorate to triumph.
Mantu accused Nigerian political leaders of truncating public wishes, stressing the urgent need to rescue the polity from fierce and unbridled verbal and physical engagements.
He argued that the current democratic governance brought about remarkable improvements in the country’s socio-economic potential, harping on the need to nurture true democratic culture.
Mantu said, “For a people to say they want to form a group that would save democracy, such people should be encouraged because there is no doubt they have good intentions.
“The major problem we are facing is that there is no internal democracy now in the political parties. Anybody who emerges through rigging will definitely fight back.”
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