Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State and Chairman South-East Governors Forum, yesterday, aligned with President Buhari’s rejection of the Electoral Amendment submitted to him for assent by the National Assembly.
Umahi, whose support for Buhari came while receiving the leadership of the National Examination Council, NECO, led by the Registrar/Chief Executive, Prof. Dantani Wushishi, at the new Government House, Abakaliki, explained that the bill had the capacity of truncating democracy.
According to him, the development would have led to incessant litigation from personalities and political parties.
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He said: “Let me congratulate Mr. President for refusing to sign that Electoral Bill. You see, when we are making laws we have to look at all the factors. This is a country that when you are defeated in any primary, you refuse to accept defeat.
“Now, imagine the number of our local governments, 774. Imagine the number of wards. You now go to conduct primaries in all these wards, maybe for the President and after that, the Senate and the rest of the positions. Even if you are doing all of them in one day, expect petitions by the number of political parties multiplied by the number of wards.
“So it will just truncate our democracy; there is no doubt about that. Nobody has considered the amount of confusion that will arise out of that because everybody that contests election will like to go to court.”
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