BREAKING: Tinubu Must Stop This Shame – Falana Gives Tinubu Tough Task On Live TV

BREAKING: Tinubu Must Stop This Shame – Falana Gives Tinubu Tough Task On Live TV

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has called on President Bola Tinubu to end what he termed as “the shame of bad elections in Nigeria must stop.”

Falana made this appeal during an interview on Channels TV on Friday.

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He pointed out that various administrations in Nigeria have established electoral reform committees, but their suggestions have not been put into action.

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Falana emphasized that the appointment of card-carrying members of political parties or party loyalists as Resident Electoral Commissioners or National Commissioners has complicated INEC’s capacity to conduct credible elections.

He said, “The commitment to have credible elections in 2027 and the shame of bad elections in Nigeria must stop, and President Tinubu has a duty not only to encourage INEC to conduct good elections, he must also ensure that his promises to have credible elections in Nigeria are kept.

“As a matter of fact, since 2007, successive regimes in Nigeria—the Yar’Adua regime, the Jonathan regime, and the Buhari regime—have all set up electoral reform committees or panels to make recommendations that will assist the government to have credible elections.

“In the case of President Tinubu, as a leader of ACN, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu set up a committee to campaign for the implementation of the recommendations of the Uwais Panel, and one of them is that we must have independent umpires.

“You can’t have a card-carrying member of a political party or a loyalist of a party to be a Resident Electoral Commissioner or a National Commissioner; you complicate for INEC to have credible elections.”

Falana stressed that judges should not determine the outcome of elections, given that Nigeria has the highest number of election petitions worldwide.

He said, “We need to resolve that we are never again going to allow judges to determine or confirm the results of elections. It doesn’t happen anywhere in the world, and that is why I repeatedly challenge my colleagues: Are you aware that we have the largest number of election petitions in the world?

“This year we recorded the lowest number of electron petitions since 2003; we have 436 petitions; in 2019 we had 807; in 2007, the worst elections we have ever conducted in Nigeria, Nigeria recorded 1,282 petitions.”

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