IGWEBUIKECRACY

Abstract

Democracy is from two Greek words: demos, which means ‘people’ and kratein, which means to ‘rule’. Put together, it means the power of the people. Thus, Lincoln (cited by Kanu 2019) describes democracy as “the government of the people, by the people and for the people under the rule of law” (p. 316). Gyekye (1997) and Busia (1975) observe that the concept “the people” points to the power of the people to choose who to rule them in accordance with the general good of the society, and that they set up, by themselves, the constitutional rules, principles and procedures of governance.