Some senators-elect on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, promoting Senator Bukola Saraki for the presidency of the eight Senate on Sunday issued a statement...
Explaining why they boycotted the shadow election conducted by the party leadership yesterday for the Senate Presidency.
The group who identified themselves as Senators of like mind, in the statement, insisted that the open ballot system adopted for the mock election was primitive and undemocratic.
Find the statement below:
“We the Senators-Elect of Like Minds today 6th of June, 2015, on the invitation of our party, attended an interactive meeting with selected 5 members from each group, the Unity Forum and the Like Minds Group.
“Regrettably, the Unity Forum insisted on open ballot voting which we discovered is different from the electoral process used to conduct the earlier election with the House of Representatives members elect. To us, this open ballot voting is primitive; undemocratic and against universal electoral norms and practice.
“In the light of the above, we the Senators elect of Like Minds hereby insist on our position of Open Secret voting process which we believe is in consonance with the provisions of the electoral act, the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and the universal electoral values.
“As responsible citizens of Federal Republic of Nigeria, and leaders in our own right, we have resolved and hereby state that we shall not be part of a process that promotes undemocratic electoral process that may resort to rancorous and uncivil situations which inhibits the rights of individuals to vote for the candidate of their choice, as this process will further divide us than unite members of our party”.
They concluded by stating categorically that they will only participate in the constitutional election scheduled for Tuesday, the 9th of June, 2015 in line with the rules of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
News Credit: dailypostng
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