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Nigeria’s Electoral System In Need Of Urgent Reform, Says Senator Seriake Dickson
Senator Seriake Dickson, representing Bayelsa West, has expressed the need to sanitize Nigeria’s electoral system, citing the growing number of election-related litigation and the erosion of public trust.
In a recent interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today, monitored by Diaspora Watch in Nigeria, Dickson disclosed that the National Assembly has started moves to amend the electoral law.
“First of all, the electoral law is important, and we have started, I mean the electoral amendment committee. We are undertaking a comprehensive review once again of the electoral law to underpin the conduct of free and fair elections, to reduce litigation, contest, challenges, and disaffection as you saw now even in the Supreme Court venue, people not accepting the verdict of the Supreme Court.”
Dickson also called for the introduction of electronic voting to reduce human interference, which he believes gives rise to manipulation. “What we need to work towards in this country, in a nutshell, and we are trying to build a consensus in the National Assembly, I don’t know whether we will succeed, but we are making some progress, is how we can have electronic voting where you will reduce human interference that gives rise to manipulation, inducement, intimidation, and all of that.”
He lamented that the Federal Government under the All Progressives Congress (APC) has not built on the progress made in the use of technology in Nigeria’s elections in the last eight years. “In the party in government, they haven’t really shown that desire to see that we sanitize the electoral process, and most importantly now at the level of national leadership, to put the interest of the country above their personal interest and the interest of their party by actively promoting and supporting the application of technology.”
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Dickson also endorsed the call by the Patriots, led by former Commonwealth Secretary-General Emeka Anyaoku, for a national constituent assembly to produce a new draft constitution for the country. “It is a national imperative, it is the kind of constitution we have that has reduced our capacity to be productive. It is the nature of the constitution that has given rise to the ineffective grassroots administrative system, the local government system that we have.” He added that it is the constitution that has created the situation that has resulted in having an over-bloated and overloaded centre.
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