This is the problem. Can INEC conduct a credible election under this circumstance/condition? Why the haste? Why cant we just take things easy and put our house in order before plugging the nation into another chaos? What happened if their preferred candidate lost and what happened if GEJ lost as well? If they can do this to a sitting president before the election, what will happen after the election? Lets put this coming election on hold. Here is the PROPOSITIONAL ALTERNATIVE that I support personally and it was suggested by Dr. Tunde Bakare: 1. Activate the constitutional provisions for the suspension of elections Section 135(3) of the 1999 Constitution. 2. Create a Transitional Government. In suspending the elections, to gain the support of all stakeholders, the president must not act with the intention to seek re-election. 3. Address the Fundamentals. Addressing the fundamentals calls for immediate implementation of the report, or part thereof, of the 2014 National Conference. 4. Conduct accurate census. 5. Establish a truly independent electoral body. 6. Create a true people’s constitution that will reflect the aforementioned features A true people’s constitution, rather than being preambled by a military decree, as in the case of the 1999 constitution, will be preceded by the people’s expressed interest to co-exist as a nation and be governed under agreed principles as espoused in the Charter for National Reconciliation and Integration adopted at the 2014 National Conference. 7. Conduct free, fair and credible elections in the consensually accepted constitutional arrangement In the end, as an integrated rather than regionally and religiously divided nation, we will arrive at the same juncture we are currently but, at that time, better prepared with the fundamentals in place and with the nation set for the leadership of the best of the north and the best of the south while the federating units, truly federal, are constitutionally empowered for collaborative and competitive development.
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 13:11:31 +0000