By Oluwole Solanke PhD, FCIB Introduction: Democracy Beyond Mere Elections What should be a vibrant and open democratic exercise is reduced to a carefully arranged political selection designed to serve the interests of a privileged elite. Citizens become spectators in the very system that is supposed to belong to them. The language of unity masks the reality of exclusion. “Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”— Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, 1863 Lincoln’s immortal words remind us that the defining characteristic of…
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