Bolaji Akinyemi, a political science professor and former minister of foreign affairs for Nigeria, has claimed that poor governance is the root cause of coups.
This was said by Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi in an interview for Politics Today on Channels TV against the backdrop of the ongoing military coup in the Niger Republic.
“Bad governance has been a driving force behind coups,” he said. In addition to poor administration, the term “civilian coups” has crept into the vocabulary of political scientists.
“This is the time when the president in office manipulates the constitution to extend his or her term. Some people even abandoned the idea of term limits.
“The Central African Republic has done so, having completed the regulation two terms he now introduced a new constitutional amendment having seven years starting with him.
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“He removed members of the supreme court and assembled new judges and called on his people to have a referendum. His people adopted the referendum. This is a civilian coup, which deserves to be condemned.
“President of Senegal toyed with the idea of term elongation until when people poured into streets and got killed, property destroyed. He then backed. Even when they keep within the term, the corruption is so endemic that politicians get pats, while the people lose weight. The devastating state of our economies in Africa, we don’t deserve that because of our resources.”
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