Notwithstanding the difficulties surrounding the presidential and National Assembly elections on February 25, according to human rights attorney Femi Falana, SAN, numerous successes were noted, including the debunking of the concept of political structure.
On Monday, Falana remarked on Channels Television’s Politics Today that the just concluded presidential election demonstrated that the people are the structure. He expressed regret, however, that the Independent National Electoral Commission was unable to electronically upload results in real-time to their central server as they had promised before the elections, but expressed hope that the electoral body would address the issue before the March 18 governorship and state assembly elections.
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Falana asserted that Nigerians will not accept another excuse from the INEC for delaying the governorship and state assembly elections by one week, as he is confident that they won’t make the same error of failing to upload results from voting places in real time.
“There are some positive developments that were recorded. For instance, the myth of these political structures has been destroyed whereby people have shown that we are the structure, and the people are the structure ultimately.
“Secondly, young people have also shown this time around that we are going to determine the future of our country. Thirdly, you no longer have to be a moneybag to contest elections in Nigeria. Another development is that whereas the Senate chamber has been converted to a resting home for former governors; this time around, many of the governors lost their seats, they lost in the election and so they won’t be able to go back to the national assembly.
“The other development is that sitting governors and sitting president could not win their states for their political parties. So, in spite of the challenges, a number of positive developments have been recorded by our country, and of course, I think the most significant is the use of BVAS for accreditation. It has improved the accreditation of voters,” Falana said.
