Nigeria: Reminiscing On April General Elections

Abuja — Existence of a democratic system as an instrument of social engineering is the foundation of all human civilisation. Across nations and creeds, it has been argued that participatory democracy remains the greatest evidence of people's collective resolve to surrender part of their rights as individuals, in order to live a social life with all obligations and rights they have agreed to pursue.

Without any form of exaggeration, democracy definitely provides the platform upon which man's superiority to other animals is founded, for it signifies his intention to live in a predictable, orderly and peaceful society without which he would have been just another wild creature - totally at the mercy of other human elements.

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