The Idea Of A Federal Agency To Conduct Local Government Elections Is A Veritable Weapon – Afenifere

The Pan-Yoruba Socio-Political organization, Afenifere in a statement released by the National Publicity Secretary of the organization, Justice Faloye while reacting to the introduction of a bill to establish a National Independent Local Government Electoral Commission (NILGEC), for the conduct of Local Government elections revealed that the idea of a Federal agency to conduct Local Government Elections was a veritable weapon in an absolute unitarianism of the Nigerian Federation by the Central Government.READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>...CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING.>>

The National Publicity Secretary of the Pan-Yoruba Socio-Political organization, Afenifere, Justice Faloye said “The idea of a federal agency to conduct local government elections is a veritable weapon in furtherance of the undisguised policy of complete capture and absolute unitarianism of the Nigerian Federation by the Central Government, a policy that has attained its crescendo under the present administration.

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Afenifere decries all forms of political rascality aimed at stifling democracy by the two tiers of the Nigerian government structure and equally condemns in unmistakable terms political gerrymandering pushing Nigeria into a unitary state by wielders of transient political power contrary to the existential covenant of federalism.”

 

Justice Faloye added that the administration of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) have proven not better at conducting the limited elections with which they were saddled by the constitution of the country.

He also added that the introduction of a bill to establish a National Independent Local Government Electoral Commission, NILGEC, for the conduct of Local Government elections and considers the idea as nothing but a monumental multiplication of INEC’s inefficiencies at 774 degrees.READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>