I sincerely hope, however, that our people will adopt the multi party parliamentary system when the long and painful process of fully integrating and unifying our nation has been successfully completed; wher national consciousness has become firmly rooted; when the vast majority of our people have become educated to the point of becoming not only literate but also trained to understand the economic, technical and other issues involved in running a modem state; when the country has become economically viable and self-sufficient in food; when divisiveness can no longer jeopardize its very existence; in brief, when such a system offers the prospect of being really meaningful.

A multi-party state which, as I believe, will become not only feasible but also be put into practice when the social, economic and cultural gaps between the majority of the people and their political leaders is substantially reduced; as it is both in the western world and in the traditional African society where the life styles of the rulers and the ruled can at least be measured on the same scale.