Senator representing Kebbi Central, Mohammed Adamu Aliero, has expressed concern over the rising development of election losers resorting to bribery via court docket processes to overturn ballot outcomes, describing the act as a severe abuse that undermines Nigeria’s democracy.
He made the remarks in the course of the opening ceremony of a retreat for the Senate and Home Committees on Electoral Issues, held on the Legend Resort, Airport Highway, Lagos.
Aliero stated the sample of difficult election ends in court docket and influencing outcomes via illicit means should be stopped.
“Maybe, he could not even problem the election consequence. It has occurred prior to now, a scenario the place the loser will go to court docket after shedding the election, after which he’ll bribe his method and get himself declared as not fascinating,” the senator stated.
He lamented that such practices make a mockery of the electoral course of, warning that except reforms are applied, confidence in democratic establishments would proceed to erode.
Aliero added that lawmakers had spent over a 12 months and a half conducting public hearings and dealing extensively to reform Nigeria’s electoral system.
“We’ll amend every part that must be amended in order that there received’t be any ambiguity, inconsistency and discrepancies. We’ve noticed many loopholes within the Electoral Act 2022 and we’re at present making an attempt to dam such loopholes in order that there might be free, honest and credible elections,” he stated.
