Femi Falana (SAN) has expressed
worry over the possibility of conducting credible elections in Nigeria.
Falana, who was a guest on
Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, described the 2019 general elections as an
‘expensive joke’.
He said “This country spent over
N250 billion from public purse on this useless enterprise apart from what each
of the governors and political party spent, which is more than 250 billion.
“If we want to get out of the
crisis of monumental dimension, we need to go back to the drawing table, beyond
the two major political parties. Nigerians must organize because this expensive
joke cannot continue.”
On the case of reported violence
across the country, Falana noted that electoral violence cannot end despite
warnings and preaching except there is an effort by the electoral offences
tribunal to follow through the cases after elections.
“We have close to 40 million
illiterate adults, the majority of them are roaming the street. In such an
environment, you could preach till the second coming of Christ, but that will
not stop people from getting involved in electoral offences and other acts of
criminality.
“All those who have been caught
disrupting our elections are agents of politicians. The police and security
agencies have arrested in the last 6 months, over 2000 electoral offenders,
what do we do with them, once the elections are over, our attention will shift
elsewhere.
“An electoral offences tribunal
are to take over these cases like the EFCC or ICPC and investigate them
thoroughly and charge those who have been indicted, but the suggestion was
rejected.
“From the human rights community,
we are trying to partner with the police and the INEC to ensure that we can
assemble young lawyers to take on the prosecution of the cases of behalf of
INEC. Otherwise, everyone will go back to business as usual as soon as
possible.
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