With the election management body fixing new dates for polls to resolve the stalemate civil society organisations and allied stakeholders have weighed in on the issue.
“It is a worrisome development and this once again raises the inevitable need for us to critically review our electoral laws and the system of voting itself. “The template for deepening democracy was laid by Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, when he gave the then INEC Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega and his team the much needed enabling environment for the conduct of a free and fair elections.
According to him, “Inconclusive elections pose serious danger to our electoral process and democracy. INEC position on this should be revisited. He continued: “The Electoral Act gives INEC discretion to organise supplementary elections where the total number of registered voters in the areas or polling units where elections could not hold is more than the margin of win. However, this does not reflect the reality.
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