A renowned property development expert with diverse business interests in Nigeria and the United States of America, Dr Chris Okobah, has tasked the Federal Government to adopt a holistic approach to tackling the hydra headed issues of corruption, insecurity, bad leadership and institutional failure at all levels of governance.
Dr. Okobah, who gave the charge while speaking on the state of the nation during an interactive session with Journalists, said the issues would enable the country achieve sustainable economic growth, political stability and accelerated development in the foreseeable future.
The business mogul, who is a lawyer, said the nation’s economy was in a mess, underscoring the urgent need for government to re-llexamine its economic polices and programs for the attainment of economic stability and shore up the value of the Naira.
The public affairs commentator criticized the judiciary for its incursion to politics, particularly in pronouncing winners of electoral contests, saying that the power to decide who should govern the people rested squarely on the electorate and not the judiciary.
He stated that a situation where three or four persons (Judges) would seat and make judicial pronouncements on the outcome of elections was antithetical to the growth of democracy and could erode the confidence of the electorate in the electoral process.
The Diasporan advocated electoral reforms to make it constitutionally mandatory for the electoral body to electronically transmit election results to IREV, insisting that the appointment of INEC Chairman and Commissioners should not be left entirely to the Executive arm of government.
Rather, he posited that a body should be constituted to screen and interrogate the credentials of nominees for the position of Chairman and Federal Commissioners to avoid appointing individuals with partisan interests and party affiliations.
Alluding to the abysmal performance of INEC in the 2023 general election, Dr Okobah insisted that only persons who were above board with impeccable qualities and high pedigree, as well sound knowledge of the historical and political evolution of Nigeria should be appointed to the electoral body.
On Security, he admonished the Federal Government to rejig the nations security architecture, saying that the present security arrangement had failed woefully to achieve the desired objective of securing the lives and property of Nigerians.
According to him, security should be intelligence driven, as was the case in developed countries and enjoined security Chiefs to live up to their responsibilities of fashioning out an enduring and full proof security architecture that could stand the test of time.
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