Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Monday, in Abeokuta, Ogun State, said democracy has not been working as a system of government in Africa because it was “forced” on the continent. Obasanjo stated this in his address at a high-level consultation on “Rethinking Western Liberal Democracy for Africa”. The former president said the Western style of democracy failed in Africa because it did not take into consideration the views of the majority of the people. Obasanjo described Western Liberal Democracy as a “government of a few people over all the people or population”. ”These few people are representatives of only some