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Electorates VETO POWER
ELECTORATES' VETO POWER

ENWEREM ROWLAND spotliteimage@gmail.com ENWEREM ROWLAND

The Need For Electorates&#39; Veto Power In Nigeria By Rowland Enwerem One of the tragedies that have befallen Nigeria in the last 17 years of electoral politics is the presentation of un-electable candidates for election by political parties. The question therefore is, in a situation where all the candidates presented by all the parties are un-electable, which always has been the case - from the local council to the states and the federal, would it be wrong for electorates to reject going ahead to vote at all? Again, what happens in the event that the &quot;questionable&quot; candidates are declared winners of elections that should not ordinarily have held, which also is the case most times (forget about the provisions that bestows on courts the right to bar candidates)? If it is a citizen’s right to vote and be voted for, should it not equally be his or her right to vote a quality candidate to represent them at the various political offices? If party members and aspirants protest the inanities of their various parties, which most times leads to defection to other parties, should the electorates – who are in the majority and not party members go ahead to endorse such mediocrities and outright travesty of justice? I endorse ELECTORATES&#39; VETO POWER as the only way out! Would you not think that there is need for an AMENDMENT to be effected in the Electoral Act to empower citizens to reject candidates or abstain from voting when all the candidates presented by political parties fall below basic credentials and characters for political office?

To register their disapproval, people, voters, electorates should make a protest to the electoral commission and register their protests with about 50% of electorates&#39; signatures drawn from their constituencies and submitted to the INEC. This can possibly be coordinated or done in collaboration with uncompromised human rights and civil society organizations.

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