Despite President Muhammadu Buhari’s refusal to sign the amended Electoral Act, a human rights activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria Chief Femi Falana has said that under the present Electoral Act, the Independent National Electoral Commission can introduce electronic voting if it so wishes to strengthen the electoral regime.
Falana who was the chairman of the occasion, explained further that, “As a matter of fact when the Supreme Court held that the use of Card Reader was not allowed by law, I had to come out with this provision, which was not cited in the proceedings before the court. Delivering his keynote address with the theme: “Strengthening Election System in Nigeria Building Citizens Trust, a Panacea to Good Governance”, a Legal Scholar and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria , Prof. Dakas CJ Dakas, said, “The mode of appointment of the election managers, there has been a number of proposals that have been put on the table about what needs to be done.
“If you don’t have election managers whose credibility you can vouch for, then it becomes very easy for the political class to manipulate and bribe their way into the system; so the integrity of the election managers is extremely important. On internal democracy in political parties, the Senior Advocate of Nigeria said, “The subject of internal democracy is an extremely important one, in an era which godfathers determine who gets the party tickets, internal democracy becomes extremely important.
ELECTRONIC VOTING : IMPOSSIBLE DREAM. ELECTRONIC VOTING in Nigeria is an additional problem. People like ATIKU WOULD ABUSE IT. Lots of IMAGINARY ELECTRONIC VOTING IN 2019. With all those NASTY BIGOTS POLITICIANS AROUND, electronic voting is an IMPORTANT DREAM
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