Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says Nigeria’s democracy does not have African content and context, lamenting that it has created a winner-takes-all approach to politics. Speaking at the 2026 Goodluck Jonathan Foundation Democracy Dialogue in Bauchi, the Bauchi State capital, on Tuesday, Obasanjo said the Western liberal democracy inherited by many African countries was not designed around the continent’s realities. He likened the adoption of the Western liberal democracy to wearing a dress that was not made to fit, arguing that the model has created a political culture in which election winners often disregard those who lose. “The Western liberal democracy that we inherited pulls from monarchy, hence we can have a government and loyal opposition, loyal to the monarchy. But when you talk about loyal opposition in an African setting and I have gone into many African languages, opposition means enemy, that is the word.