Until our leaders are convinced that they want us to be in power, they are unlikely to serve us, so we will all have to push forward the kind of electoral reforms that serve our interests as Nigerian citizens. can communicate about a guilty government, a wonderful country and a well-deserved celebration.
There is a report of trends on social media on how officials from the Quality Assurance Department of a Ministry of State Education allegedly resulted in the death of a school owner due to their unnecessary authoritarianism and tendency to operate. , collapsed and died, while various teams of state officials burned him for nothing. Imagine, this guy has survived all the uncertainties related to COVID-19, probably recovered part of his school’s population and still died at the hands of officials.
When you have a government that does what it wants, it will inspire other members of society to act recklessly. And that is precisely what happened at Afe Babalola University, a university of its own in Ado-Ekiti, which charges accommodation fees for academics with online knowledge. It’s bad enough that some Nigerian own universities have refused to refund the accommodation fees that academics paid before the courses were transferred online, but ask the academics to pay for the accommodation when the university explicitly stated that the semester is over. would perform online, it is still nothing. a stretch of daylight. In decent societies, universities reimburse unused accommodation expenses. A parent of a student at the University at Buffalo, a public university in New York City, told me that his son received a $ 2,000 rebate with a long letter showing empathy from university officials. I note that some Nigerian universities have also made refunds. I know that Caleb and Ajayi Crowther University did it and also made it public. If any other universities did, they probably haven’t made it public, and I know that many of them have rejected non-public requests on the subject.
I believe that the manipulation of Nigeria’s electoral procedure is at the root of many of its problems and the solution is for the entire electoral procedure to be transparent if a politician knows he doesn’t want others to win an election, why?Would you mind pleasing other people who have no electoral value?This is what we all face when Nigeria celebrates 60 years of independence.
Of course, if we look at the electoral procedure that drives these other people to power, it is clear that the formula allows for many commitments that diminish the influence that the electorate deserves to have in a general democratic framework. Be the means by which citizens participate in the variety of their leaders. Ideally, electoral procedures deserve to give the government a sense of legitimacy. But in Nigeria, most of the time, elections are just varieties. Unfortunately, the procedure by which our leaders emerge has a lot to do with what we get from them. Countries that have credible electoral procedures are likely to be better governed because their leaders owe their legitimacy to others. This is not to say that these leaders succeed all the time, yet at least they try to be in the smart books of their citizens, knowing that they will want it.
I believe that the manipulation of Nigeria’s electoral procedure is at the root of many of its problems. And the solution is that the entire electoral procedure is transparent. If a politician knows that he does not want others to win an election, why would he care to please others who have no electoral merits? This is the dilemma we all face as Nigeria celebrates 60 years of independence. It is time for us to improve our electoral procedure in order to achieve greater people-centered participation. Why are we reluctant to fully integrate the generation into our electoral procedure? This will only improve transparency and reduce handling times. Okay, we have accepted the use of card readers, but we have to move on. The use of incident bureaucracy during elections is a means of manipulation. We want to review our legislation to ensure that full biometric data is used for accreditation and that electoral effects are transmitted electronically in the same way that the existing Election Bill expects knowledge of accreditation to be transmitted. This amendment will reduce the occurrence of manipulation of the effects of the elections. The revelry of this country has shown that the manipulation of electoral effects is situated between the era of the announcement of the effects at the voting table and the moment of the announcement of the effects in the collection centers.
Let’s modify segment 25 of the Elections Act 2010 so that to stagger our elections, all senate elections, the House of Representatives, the Presidency, the State Assembly, and the State Executive (Governor) can be held in one day. prices are likely to fall and violence and other manipulation bureaucracies are likely to decline.
Until our leaders are convinced that they want us to be in power, they are unlikely to serve us, so we will all have to push forward the kind of electoral reforms that serve our interests as Nigerian citizens. can communicate about a guilty government, a wonderful country and a well-deserved celebration. Until then, our leaders will continue to hold us back as a rescue.
Olabisi Deji-Folutile is the editor-in-chief of franktalknow. com and a member of the Nigerian Publishers Guild.
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