Electoral Bill: NASS Has Killed Nigeria’s Democracy – Ozekhome

Ozekhome, who was delivering a special lecture at the 2021 graduation ceremony/prize giving ceremony of the Pacesetters’ School Abuja yesterday, said the concept of democracy is no longer in practice in Nigeria.

He said the “national tragedy” in the last two days at the National Assembly was for the sole interest of politicians in order to rig elections. “Votes are meant to be counted and they are meant to count. Where you do not allow it to count then you’re not having a government of the people, you are having a government of the few.

“Why do we choose to kill electronic voting when across the world, even Democratic Republic of Congo here is using it? You are even now making INEC to be no longer independent. Why are we killing this country? Why are we on a journey of no destination?” he said. A former minister of education and former vice president of the World Bank , Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, said economic evidence had proven that nations where citizens are not at the center of development had ended up being at the bottom.

“For our continent to make it, education and human capital have to be the epic centre of our economic strategy, education must be the new oil,” she added.Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, commended the proprietor of the school for ensuring quality education for children across the country, saying it was the responsibility of the government to embrace it and set the standard for all children.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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