Bishop Isaac Idahosa, the 2023 Vice Presidential Candidate of the New Nigeria Individuals’s Social gathering (NNPP), says the suitable punishment needs to be meted out to the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) and public officers for electoral failures.
In response to the ally of former Kano governor and the 2023 NNPP presidential candidate Rabiu Kwankwaso, as soon as there are not any penalties for actions and inactions which can be wanting acceptable requirements, such misconduct will persist.
“We don’t punish anyone for what he does; there are not any penalties, so he retains on repeating it,” the cleric stated on Channels Tv’s The Morning Transient programme on Wednesday.
“INEC does this, and no one places them to examine, after which it repeats it. As soon as there are not any penalties on your actions or inactions, then a repeat will happen as a result of there isn’t a accountability.”
The electoral umpire INEC launched its Outcome Viewing Portal (IReV) and the Bimodal Voter Registration Techniques (BVAS) for the 2023 normal elections, however many politicians faulted the effectivity of the 2 applied sciences throughout the polls with INEC citing technical glitches for the tackiness.
Within the final election, Kwankwaso, alongside his working mate Idahosa, completed fourth with 1,496,687 votes whereas Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) bought 8,794,726 votes adopted by Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Social gathering (PDP) who polled 6,984,520 votes, and Peter Obi of the Labour Social gathering (LP) who scored 6,101,533 votes.
The election outcomes had been challenged as much as the Supreme Court docket, however the apex courtroom dominated that the unavailability of outcomes on IReV was not grounds for nullification of the ballot.
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Moreover, Idahosa lamented that some individuals in authorities have turn into extra highly effective than establishments, and this continues to have an effect on governance within the nation. “Cash politicking has taken over the system,” he added.
The NNPP chieftain stated all elections needs to be regularised and performed on the identical day for transparency.
He stated, “I’ll wish to counsel the place all elections are performed on the identical day. That may assist curb an entire lot of issues – presidential, senatorial, gubernatorial, all on the identical day. It is going to lower prices and can get the fascinating outcomes. However when you could have this in a span of 1 or two weeks after the presidential, an entire lot can go, bandwagon can go.”
‘I’m Nonetheless Shut To Kwankwaso’
Idahosa additionally stated he’s nonetheless near Kwankwaso and that the previous Kano governor remained the chief of the NNPP.
“To start with, I’m nonetheless very near my principal; he was right here final week – the eighth of February after I celebrated my sixtieth birthday. So we’re nonetheless very in contact, we’re very shut. No disaster in our get together, he’s nonetheless our nationwide chief, His Excellency Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.
“We don’t have factions; these so-called factions have been expelled from the get together. There isn’t any room to stress factions in our get together – we simply bought one get together headed and being led by His Excellency, Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso,” he stated.
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