A member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Tajudeen Yusuf has warned against inconclusiveness in the Saturday’s governorship election in Edo State.
This is as he also commended the United States’ visa ban on some politicians accused of electoral malpractices and urged the European Union (EU), United Kingdom (UK) and other developed nations to consider following suit immediately.
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The federal lawmaker representing Kabba-Bunu/Ijumu Federal constituency of Kogi State lamented that there have been many inconclusive elections within the last five years.
According to Yusuf, “PDP members are joining Edo State people and all true democrats across Nigeria to call upon the US, the EU, UK and all other countries to insist that there must be no repeat of the APC’s trick in Osun State where they casually engineered an ‘inconclusive election’ to manipulate and win through the back door.
“We shall continue to commend the USA for wielding the big stick against those who played inglorious, despicable roles in the violent rape of democracy during Kogi state’s last governorship elections; replication of such visa ban by the EU, UK and other developed countries will tame APC leaders’ penchant for foreign trips and further reassure Nigerian democrats.”
He said that it was regrettable for the nation that those who came to power professing positive change and progressive democracy have instead brought nepotism, worsened insecurity, economic misery, high unemployment and grand schemes to thwart democracy through various means, including ‘inconclusive election’.
He said, “All through the PDP years from May 1999 to May 2015, only one inconclusive election was recorded but sadly just between May 2015 and now, the APC leadership has given Nigeria twenty-two inconclusive elections, with clear suspicions of its inclination towards having more of such anti-democratic accomplishments.”
