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• 1,209 out of 1,280 elective offices to be decided by court verdict • Free, fair, credible elections held in only 71 polls, representing 5.
The implication is that the electorate have less say about who becomes their leader, as that responsibility has substantially been shifted to the judiciary. “It was also the first time that the proportion of elections ending up in courts was less than 50 per cent . The 2019 elections produced 766 petitions , roughly the same number as the 769 seen in 2011,” he pointed out.
Last November, the chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, lamented that the Commission was handling over 600 pre-election cases in several courts across the federation during a capacity-building workshop for over 300 judges that would handle election disputes.
“The next thing they resort to, to avoid being deserted is to give false hope to their supporters that the courts will restore to them their ‘stolen mandate’ and hence the high rate of litigation we see all over,” he said, adding that many lawyers who ought to discourage frivolous litigations by appropriately advising their clients will rather cash in on the situation to make a fortune out of the desperate losers of the elections by rushing to courts in spite of the poor chances of success.
“He was singing it all over that INEC result viewing portal was ‘the game changer’ which will eliminate all electoral malpractices, whereas, though a lawyer himself, he was talking in crass ignorance of the provisions of the electoral laws when compared with the subsequent court decisions. He regretted that few men and women on the bench get to decide who occupies political office for the electorate.
According to him, the blame goes to the Nigerian in INEC, the Nigerian in politicians and the Nigerian in our leaders, as well as the Nigerian in the electorate, who have all accepted the culture of dishonesty. According to him, it was not credible. “With that, even those who clearly lost the election would believe they should be declared winner because of the inefficiency of INEC.
Senator Lola Ashiru has emerged as the new Deputy Leader of the Senate after replacing David Umahi who was appointed as the Minister of Works by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, announced the emergence of Ashiru in his new position during plenary on Wednesday. Ashiru, who represents Kwara North in the…
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