NIGERIA CANNOT PROGRESS UNTIL IT ABANDONS ‘PRIMITIVE’ LEADERSHIP SELECTION — JONATHAN
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has called for fundamental reform of Nigeria’s political recruitment system, warning that the country cannot achieve meaningful development while religion, ethnicity, language and denominational considerations continue to influence who can become a political leader. Speaking as chairman of the Herbert Macaulay Memorial Colloquium in Lagos on November 14, Jonathan also described Nigeria’s democratic system as “opaque and amorphous” and called for stronger popular participation, judicial independence, accountability, human rights and the rule of law. He identified weak leadership, corruption, institutional weakness, policy inconsistency, infrastructure deficits and insecurity as development obstacles and urged Nigeria to build research-intensive universities capable of competing globally. New Telegraph