Why Nigeria must learn from South Africa election — Peter Obi

The statesmanlike campaigner of the Labour Party successful the 2023 wide election, Peter Obi, has said Nigeria needs to survey and larn from South Africa’s behaviour of its caller elections.

The LP chieftain, who is simply a erstwhile politician of Anambra State, successful a station via X connected Saturday, noted that Nigeria needs to follow a much robust electoral system, akin to South Africa’s, to guarantee credible and transparent elections.

He praised South Africa’s Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) for its ratio and impartiality, suggesting Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) could payment from akin structural reforms.

Obi stressed that Nigeria, by adopting South Africa’s style, tin fortify its antiauthoritarian process and guarantee free, fair, and credible elections.

He wrote, “The result of the caller South African predetermination results remains a shining illustration of what a transparent and businesslike antiauthoritarian electoral process should look like.

“With astir 60% elector turnout, implicit 90% of polling unfastened connected time, allowing diaspora voting, the results and updates were real-time without immoderate signifier of method glitches during the election.

“This demonstrated the robustness and transparency of their system. The seamless online dissemination of results further highlights their committedness to antiauthoritarian principles and technological advancement.

“This is successful stark opposition to the amusement of shame that the elephantine of Africa, Nigeria, gave the World successful 2023.

Nigeria’s 2023, with little than 30% of the elector turnout and implicit 60% of the polling stations starting late, nary diaspora voting, the elections were plagued by allegations of fraud and wide irregularities, each forms of glitches, contempt an tremendous expenditure to the tune of astir a cardinal dollars (direct allocation of =N=313 Billion and donor agencies supports).

“The process has been wide discredited. The differences betwixt the 2 countries’ electoral processes are some stark and lamentable. South Africa’s Election Results Center, with its state-of-the-art physics board, showcased results with unparalleled precision and speed.

“Meanwhile, Nigeria’s electoral process is mired successful contention and lacks transparency. This glaring juxtaposition is simply a achy reminder of our country’s ongoing struggles with antiauthoritarian governance.

“It underscores the urgent request for broad electoral reforms to guarantee that our elections are free, fair, and credible. We indispensable larn from South Africa’s illustration and strive to physique a strategy that restores the people’s religion successful our democracy.

“The clip for enactment is now, and we cannot spend to hold immoderate longer successful addressing these captious issues for a caller Nigeria is POssible!”