A pan-Yoruba organisation in the South West, Afenifere, has expressed doubts about the capacity of Present Bola Tinubu-led administration to conduct free and fair elections.
The group buttressed its point by noting that the “President still has the power to appoint his party members as managers of elections.”
The leading socio-political organization, which made this observation in a communiqué issued at the end of a meeting on Tuesday, said the 1999 Constitution (as amended) gives the President too much power in appointing officials of the electoral body.
The Afenifere faction led by Ayo Adebanjo, said: “Afenifere noted the recurrent rituals of hues and cries for electoral reforms after every national election and stated that Nigerians will continue to be afflicted with electoral brigandage under a constitution which overconcentrates powers at the centre and wherein the President of the Federation openly appoints his party members and lackeys as officials of a supposedly independent electoral commission and managers of elections,”
“It cannot be overemphasised that such a scenario will continue to set our people against one another in the evident unrestrained cutthroat competition for power.”
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Afenifere also asked the federal government to “summon the courage to match and reconcile the resolutions of the 2014 national conference and the reports of the APC (El-Rufai) Committee on Federalism for the holistic restructuring of the federation, which shall be enacted into a new constitution.”
The group said it is time for “Tinubu to step forward with the requisite political determination to live for history and mobilise Nigerians to truly enact for ourselves an autochonous federal constitution.”
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