I honestly share Akinola's admiration for the British electoral culture in comparison with what obtains in Nigeria. I would, however, insist that the root of the difference between the two cultures cannot be found in our "backwardness", "poverty," "illiteracy", "corruption" "greed", etc – which themselves need to be explained – but more crucially in the capitalist path of development that Nigeria's ruling classes have chosen and imposed on the country, a path of development that passes through primitive capitalist accumulation and its "do or die" tactics.
Demokrasia inahusu maendeleo. Tumejitahidi kwa upande wetu kuondoa mkoa wa Kigoma kutoka mikoa isiyo na miundombinu kabisa ya maendeleo mpaka kuwa mkoa unaotumika kama mfano kwa miradi mingi ya Maendeleo ikiwemo Daraja la Malagarasi, Uwanja wa ndege wa Gombe-Mahale, barabara za lami na upanuzi wa Bandari, ujenzi wa bandari ndogo mpya na ujenzi wa kituo cha Usafirishaji Mwandiga. Asije mtu akasema yeye ndio kafanya haya. Haya ni matunda ya nyinyi watu wa Kigoma kupokea demokrasia na bila woga kuchagua viongozi wenu bila kujali vyama bali kwa kuangalia uwezo. Haya ni matunda ya viongozi wenu kupaza sauti yenu kwenye baraza la Taifa, Bunge. Haya ni matunda ya uvumilivu wenu na uamuzi wenu wa kutaka maendeleo.