May 29: Doubts Versus Realities - Latest News
There are issues that have become germane in seeking to rationalise or debunk the inauguration of Tinubu as Nigeria’s next president. Apart from the debate that holds the view that a president-elect must score no less than 25 percent of total votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory , the disparity in voter figures on signed sheets of papers and inflated figures in INEC’s IReV, including violence and suppression of voters, make the prospects for a long legal battle inevitable.
The truth is that the present legal pyrotechnics over the outcome of the presidential poll will definitely end up at the Supreme Court. If the past is anything to go by, the petitioners may have to wearily wait for a long time scaling through the turbulent walls of anxiety in the march to invalidate the result of the poll.
Since 2007 to date, succeeding administrations have not spared efforts to promote fair polls through the promulgation of relevant laws for trustworthy polls. The advocates of improved transparency for polls have always insisted that technology could provide final answers in cleansing the mess that the Nigerian electoral system has become. The optimism for the deployment of new technology to combat widespread malpractices in 2019 polls was summarily shot down by Buhari.
All is now history. There have been volumes of analyses by commentators on a deliberate ploy to rig the 2023 presidential poll. Even while it remains a fact that President Buhari’s policies were noticeably convincing, especially the new naira design and persistent scarcity of fuel, seemed targeted at undoing his party’s presidential candidate, Tinubu’s victory in the presidential poll remains an unexpected paradox.
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