{"id":174383,"date":"2024-06-12T19:41:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T17:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-weak-institutions-crippling-nigerias-democracy-onigbinde\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T19:41:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T17:41:19","slug":"nigeria-weak-institutions-crippling-nigerias-democracy-onigbinde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-weak-institutions-crippling-nigerias-democracy-onigbinde\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Weak Institutions Crippling Nigeria&#8217;s Democracy &#8211; Onigbinde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">CEO and co-founder of BudgIT, a civic-tech organization, Seun Onigbinde has highlighted the ongoing challenges faced by Nigeria&#8217;s democracy due to weak governmental institutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Speaking at the 36th edition of The Platform Nigeria, a forum dedicated to discussing the state of Nigerian democracy, Onigbinde emphasised the need for institutions to prioritize allegiance to the people and the constitution over the government in power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">He underscored the importance of the police, military, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406120592.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEO and co-founder of BudgIT, a civic-tech organization, Seun Onigbinde has highlighted the ongoing challenges faced by Nigeria&#8217;s democracy due to weak governmental institutions. Speaking at the 36th edition of The Platform Nigeria, a forum dedicated to discussing the state of Nigerian democracy, Onigbinde emphasised the need for institutions to prioritize allegiance to the people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":174384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,26773,4854,8057,257,4687,393,5761,11128,254,13849],"class_list":["post-174383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crippling","tag-democracy","tag-institutions","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-onigbinde","tag-south-africa-today","tag-weak"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}