Because this is one election, an isolated election in one state, in which INEC have deployed not less than three ranking electoral commissioners, in addition to other high-ranking officials of the commission.
Because to my mind, Edo is not in the part of the country where people have problem of accessibility. Most parts of Edo State can be easily accessed by road. Now, vote-buying is a criminal offence under the electoral act. It is an electoral offence that has been criminalised. That, when you allow certain elements or characters pass through the electoral process and occupy political positions, it has a direct bearing on the country, human capital development and of course, general developments in the country.
We need a special court to prosecute violators of electoral laws in this country. And this should be done in addition to possibly considering having an electoral offences commission, because at the end of the day, we cannot have a serious country with democracy if our electoral process is not deliberately sanitised.
PT: We have like 14 political parties competing in Edo State. So far, the media has extensively reported mainly on two of them. Do you think the media is being fair on this matter?: It appears to me that people are, to some extent, buying into this propaganda – it is either the Devil or the blue sea for Nigerians, either you support either of these two parties – which is not supposed to be. Because to some of us really, it is basically a distinction, without a difference.
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