A former Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, has suggested
that the Nigerian Constitution and electoral laws should be amended to make any
presidential candidate who does not have over 50 per cent of total votes cast
in a general election unfit for office.
Chidoka, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),
made the assertion on Wednesday while featuring on Channels Television’s
Sunrise Daily.
He claimed that the votes secured by President Bola Tinubu
in the last presidential election put him in a “serious minority” that made it
difficult for him to push a “big agenda” like petrol subsidy removal and the
unification of the foreign exchange windows.
The former minister suggested runoffs for presidential polls
where no candidate scores over 50 per cent of the total vote cast.
“I think we need to amend our laws to make it that any
presidential candidate who doesn’t make 50 plus 1 of the votes cast in an
election should go for a runoff because election of a President as 33% of the
votes keeps the President in serious minority that makes him difficult to push
big agenda,” he said.
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