By Agboola Bayo
Ibadan
A professor of Politics and International Relations, Prof. Adekunle Amuwo, yesterday said Nigeria needed a technocratic government to be put in place by the National Conference to midwife the 2015 general elections.
Amuwo stated this in Ibadan while delivering the 2014 Lead City University annual lecture entitled “Critical Issues in Nigeria’s Security Challenges.”
He said the setting up of the technocratic government became necessary to prevent the prediction of the US that if the country’s problem was not carefully managed, “Nigeria may cease to exist in 2015.”
He said: “I think that the current government is not likely to allow itself to be voted out of power. The state is the be all and end all of major enterprises. So, I want to suggest that this government be dissolved and should set up for the purposes of election next year a technocratic government consisting of respected men and women of integrity in the country.”
Amuwo suggested that the said technocratic government “can be headed by the only Nobel laureate we have in this country, Prof. Wole Soyinka, or a person like Chief Emeka Anyaoku and then organise free and fair elections.”
He added that “we cannot continue like this; in order to avoid pockets of anger and rage nationwide, we need to go through electoral consultation to avoid a revolution, because we don’t know how it will start and we don’t know how it’s going to end.”