The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has warned that Nigeria’s democracy has derailed.
This is as it lamented that the country’s electoral process has been hijacked by a privileged few who have essentially turned votes into commodities for trade.
The President of the NLC, Joe Ajaero, made the remarks during the public presentation of the Report on Electoral Trust and a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signing ceremony organized by the International Press Centre (IPC). He stated that the political class had betrayed the people’s sovereign will.
Ajaero stressed that the electoral process—which ought to be the sacred arena for expressing the people’s mandate—has been transformed into a marketplace where votes are auctioned and democracy is subverted by the powerful.
He argued that the consequences of this subversion are deeply reflected in the quality of governance across the nation, resulting in immense suffering for the populace.
“The huge suffering and the deliberate affliction of the people by those in public offices as if they are scourging Nigerians for not voting for them but they managed to find themselves into office,” Ajaero noted.