Blame Nigerians For Voting Bad Leaders, Goats Don’t Vote — Senator

The Peoples Democratic Party’s Senator, Ondo South Senatorial District, Nicholas Tofowomo, while discussing the state of the country and the upcoming general elections in 2023 with Punch, said :

“At every opportunity to choose a leader, we choose wrong people. When it comes to the election, it is ‘see and buy.’ It is not goats that are casting the votes, it is human beings, it is we.

If you do not have money and if you do not have a name, you cannot win anything. The problem of Nigeria, if you look at it, is waxing stronger by the day.

We are only deceiving ourselves in this country. The presidential system of government is a failure. Although I’m part of it and I’m saying it. We should have gone back to the parliamentary system of government. When you do parliamentary system of government, it is very meaningful, not expensive. Imagine someone who wants to be the President of Nigeria going around the country, spending about N50bn and you want to make him President. As soon as he gets to that office, he would want to recover that N50bn.”

-Punch