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State elections: The Plateau and Rivers flavours, By Ahmed Aminu-Ramatu YusufFriday Sermon: The generosity of Uthman Bin Affan, a lesson to leaders!, By Murtadha GusauAll Roar and No Bite: Exposing Nigeria’s Paper Tiger Election LawsState elections: The Plateau and Rivers flavours, By Ahmed Aminu-Ramatu YusufFriday Sermon: The generosity of Uthman Bin Affan, a lesson to leaders!, By Murtadha GusauLocal Government Area elections took place in Rivers and Plateau States on 5 and 9 October...
In Rivers State, conflicting judicial pronouncements made the atmosphere tense. While some political actors secured a State High Court order directing the Independent National Electoral Commission to release the voters’ register to the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission for the conduct of the elections, a Federal High Court in Abuja, on other hand, ordered INEC not to release the register until it is updated, and that the security agencies should not provide security during the polls.
In Plateau State, the ruling party, PDP won the 17 chairmanship positions. Similarly, there were post-election violence including in Dengi, where forty motorcycles belonging to PDP were set ablaze.The political atmosphere in Plateau State was not quite toxic due to five major reasons. First, PLASIEC embarked on intensive pre-election consultations and sensitisation with all the political parties, non-governmental organisations and community based organisations .
In Rivers State, on the other hand, the orders of the Abuja High Court ruling that INEC should not provide the voters register to RSIEC and security before and during the conduct of the elections, amongst others, was widely seen and interpreted as Federal Government interference and involvement in the state electoral affairs.
A second question is why are the ruling parties or those backed by governors, winning 90 – 100 per cent of the votes? Can this be due to the fact that the elections are conducted by state governments? If yes, then, how free, fair, transparent, credible and democratic elections are such elections? If the elections are democratic, why then are such margins not returned in other elections conducted by the...
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