Mr Amechi Asugwuni, NLC Acting President, made the call in a statement entitled “No Option for Democracy,” and made available to newsmen on Thursday in Abuja.
”We also call for a sincere revisit of the Justice Uwais Electoral Reform Report especially as it relates to reinforcing INEC’s independence, unbundling of INEC and setup of Elections Offences Commission. ”Efforts must also be re-doubled to develop a new national civic culture that venerates the rule of law.
He said it was clear that these pronouncements hardly served as sufficient deterrence to those bent on foisting the rule of the jungle on Nigeria election process. He also said many politicians took the advantage to deploy hired hands to vote with multiple Permanent Voters Cards even in the absence of the authentic owners of the PVCs.