According to him, the President’s doing so will also tackle anomalies which were evident in the just-concluded general elections. Uduaghan is a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
He said, “I call on Mr President to sign as early as this year, the electoral act after due amendment has been done by the National Assembly. “Obviously, the setting up of the election offences’ court has been overdue and should be set up as quickly as possible. INEC should be more rigorous in its selection of ad hoc staff. This should be done on time and series of training conducted long before the election, to allow for local people to identify partisan officials that might slip through the cracks.
“With a more informed electorate, the rising culture of solicitation and vote buying would not have been prevalent as we find today during elections. The argument that voters sell their votes because of hunger does not hold water. Eventually how much does each get? Pittance. Speaking earlier, Prof. Benjamin Ozumba, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka, observed that the topic of the lecture was very relevant, especially as the nation was still rising from the recently conducted general elections.
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