A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, has condemned the call by some opposition parties for the outright cancellation of the presidential election held on Saturday, February 25, 2023.
Describing the demand for the cancellation of the election as treasonable, unpatriotic and selfish, Ndoma-Egba, an erstwhile Senate Leader and former Chairman, Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, wondered why anyone would want to truncate the country’s democratic process at this crucial stage.
It would be recalled that the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Labour Party, LP, and Africa Democratic Congress, ADC, Iyorchis Ayu, Julius Abure and Ralf Nwosu respectively, while addressing a world press conference in Abuja had said they were calling for a total cancellation of the presidential poll and passing a vote of no confidence on the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu because, in their words: “The conduct of the February 25, 2023 election has been marred by widespread violence, rigging, intimidation of voters, doctoring of the results, and violation of the laid down electoral process which was communicated by the national electoral body, INEC.”
But the legal luminary argued that “There is no provision in our laws to grant such a demand, which is preposterous and selfish. It is even treasonable, as they seek to truncate our democratic process and therefore destroy democracy.”
According to Ndoma-Egba, who is the Secretary of the Campaign Planning Directorate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, “Democracy is about processes, not outcomes. They should allow the processes to play out. There are copious legal provisions available to them to ventilate their grievances.”
Stating further that the call for the cancellation of the presidential election was needless and not in the best interest of the country, the ex-Senate Leader advised that political leaders should desist from making provocative and inciting utterances that are capable of engendering crisis or violence.
He posited that what should be paramount in the minds of all well-meaning Nigerians at this point should be how to join hands and work together with whoever emerges as the next president to build and reposition Nigeria for greatness.
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