Opposition Parties Must Stop Intimidating Judiciary - Faleye leadershipNGA: Nigeria
Speaking generally the electoral process has been largely successful. Despite the negative attention on the Independent National Electoral Commission , I would commend them for running a largely successful and credible process. You have to understand that first and foremost, elections are a logistic nightmare, and like all logistic-based processes with a lot of human interactions you are bound to have some shortcomings.
And people must not forget where we are coming from. We need to cast our minds back to the elections of 2003, 2007, 2011 and other Presidential elections conducted by PDP and how they perpetrated electoral malpractices by multiple voting, voters' suppression, vote buying, violence and other electoral malpractices.
Voters' turnout in Nigeria has always been a challenge and this election was even worse. Hardly have we ever achieved 50 percent turnout of registered voters in Nigeria since we began to keep records. In 2015 the turnout was 43.65%, in 2019 it was 34.75% and in the last election it was abysmally 26.87%.
How about the allegation of violence. The opposition and some observers claim that the general election was marred with violence. What do we need to do to eliminate violence from our electoral process?
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