IN spite of the myriad issues associated with the February 25 presidential and National Assembly polls, numerous positives were recorded, according to human rights lawyer, Femi Falana SAN. And these include the destruction of the myth of political structure.
Falana stated today on Channels Television’s Politics Today that the people demonstrated that they are the structure in the just ended elections.
“There are some positive developments that were recorded. For instance, the myth of these political structures has been destroyed whereby people have shown that we are the structure, and the people are the structure ultimately.
“Secondly, young people have also shown this time around that we are going to determine the future of our country. Thirdly, you no longer have to be a moneybag to contest elections in Nigeria. Another development is that whereas the Senate chamber has been converted to a resting home for former governors; this time around, many of the governors lost their seats, they lost in the election and so they won’t be able to go back to the national assembly.
“The other development is that sitting governors and sitting president could not win their states for their political parties. So, in spite of the challenges, a number of positive developments have been recorded by our country, and of course, I think the most significant is the use of BVAS for accreditation. It has improved the accreditation of voters,” Falana said.
He, however, bemoaned the Independent National Electoral Commission’s inability to electronically upload results to their central server in real-time, as promised ahead of the elections, but expressed hope that the electoral body will address the issue before the March 18 governorship and state assembly elections.
Falana stated that after postponing the governorship and state assembly elections by one week, Nigerians will not accept any explanation from INEC adding that he believes they will not repeat the mistake of not uploading results from voting stations in real-time.
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