Absence of rule of law, lack of inclusiveness and consensus have been described as bane of good governance in the country.
This assertion was jointly made by university teachers, Professor AbdulKadir Abikan and Dr Misbau Lateef Alamu, yesterday in Osogbo at 12th Annual Conference of Muslim Lawyers’ Association of Nigeria, while dissecting the lead paper titled “Good Governance:A Panacea to Insecurity in Nigeria” delivered by Senator Surajudeen Ajibola Basiru.
Abikan, a professor of law at the University of Ilorin asserted that non-inclusivenes of policy of President Muhammad Buhari and flagrant disobedience to the rule of law are part of the reasons why Nigerians have not enjoyed good governance.
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He advised that if the present government in Nigeria could be more inclusive in its policies, obey rule of law and adopt consensus, the issue of insecurity will be things of past in the country.
In his discussion on the paper, Dr Alamu, who teaches Good Governance at Faculty of Law, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, said that “the nexus between security and good governance is not alien to the Nigerian Constitution since independence.
He charged President Buhari to improve the security of the country so as to justify the confidence people of Nigeria reposed in him.
Earlier, the Senator representing the Osun Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Dr Ajibola Basiru, who was represented by the immediate past Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Barr. Kolapo Alimi, has delivered a thought-provoking lecture titled ‘Good Governance: A panacea to Insecurity in Nigeria’.
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