The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had in its timetable released early in the year planned to commence the 2015 election on February 14, 2015, with the Presidential and National Assembly elections.
Chairman of the communiqué drafting committee and Deputy Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr. Kolawole Taiwo, while reading the communiqué, said the election should start from local to national.
According to the communiqué “INEC must be impartial and must be seen to have done so; hence, National Assembly should review and reverse the order of elections starting from the local to the national; remove the time limit on election petitions;“There is need to fast-track post-election litigations at Election Tribunals in order not to fall victims of the maxim; ‘Justice delayed is justice denied.’
“Credible bodies must be vested with the power to blow the whistle when the parameters of the constitutional covenant are transgressed.”Tinubu, who was represented by Vice chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC Lagos State, Cardinal James Odunbaku, jokingly said that he wished the 1999 constitution could be amended to allow the state governor, Babatunde Fashola govern the state for another four years. Governor Fashola, however urged the National Assembly to rise up and pass laws that will address the security challenges in the country.
Fashola added that passing new laws and amending obsolete laws that would conform to the current trends are what the country needed to proffer solution to the challenges facing it.“The urgent and compelling challenge that our nation faces now is the one about security and law and order. And I think these are one of the issues that our national legislators should be looking at, at the moment,” Fashola said.
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