Electoral Act: Process For 2023 Rigging Has Just Started, Says INC President


P/HARCOURT – The process for the rigging of the 2013 general elections has just started in view of the decision of the majority of members of the Senate who voted against the electronic transmission of election re­sults as envisaged by millions of Nigerians.

Expressing fears for possi­ble rigging in future elections, the President of Ijaw Nation­al Congress, INC, Prof Ben­jamin Okans said with the actions of members of the National Assembly who voted against the Act, “the process for the rigging of 2023 elec­tions has just started”.

Professor Okans believes that only credible elections can bring credible leader­ship in Nigeria, adding that the country is blessed with abundant human and ma­terial resources. “What we need as a people is a good leadership that can harness these resources. But one is worried about the actions of members of the National Assembly.

“We cannot at this point be­gin to blame a particular par­ty or region in this case. The issue of people clamoring for a President of this region or that region is because of our inability to have a leader that sees the whole country as his constituency”, he said.

The INC President not­ed that the Ijaw group had paved the way in electronic transmission of election re­sults which it adopted in the last election of the Congress. “INC recently conducted an e-election and the results were transmitted online. Ijaw peo­ple in all parts of the world were able to see the results as soon as elections were con­cluded”.

He said that over the years, Nigeria has had election that has been corruption-driven were soldiers and other se­curity agents have been de­ployed to guide the process. “Both security agents and civilians have been killed severally in the course of our elections. This is not the way to go. With electronic voting and electronic transmission of results, we will then begin to see real credible process”, he said.

Professor Okans believes that it is still possible for the National Assembly to have a rethink about the Act and en­sure that it reflects the will of millions of Nigerians who are desirous of seeing a change in the electoral process, adding that this could still be done before the 2023 elections.

Just last week, majority of the Senators particularly from the ruling All Progres­sives Congress, APC, voted against the popular demand of Nigerians to have results of elections transmitted elec­tronically starting with the 2023 elections.
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