[OPINION BY ADEBAYO ABUBAKAR] Adamawa tragicomedy: An opportunity President MBuhari needs | TheCable
has a lot to do with the independence, and incorruptibility of the electoral body, and its officials respectively. This is in addition to making adequate provisions for the needed materials, and the required logistics to conduct the exercise. All these are necessary because it is one of the pillars that hold any democracy, anywhere in the world. It is that serious a business.
Meanwhile, it is imperative to note that there is no perfect electoral system, anywhere in the world. Not even in more advanced democracies in the West . Each and every one of those countries subjects its electoral process to frequent review, with a view to further improving it. So, it is not out of place to expect Nigeria’s electoral process which stakeholders often refer to as “nascent” to be reviewed occasionally at the level of the national assembly.
By and large, if efforts made at automating our electoral system to an extent is anything to go by, the Buhari administration should be rated above average. This is because solving such institutionalised problems like the acts of corruption by some critical stakeholders requires as much sociological approach as it does, buying equipment to automate the process.
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