…says only Judiciary Can Judge
By Udesinanna Stephen
The Chief Spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress, APC Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, has said the European Union, EU only faulted certain areas of Nigeria’s 2023 general election and not the entire process.
The Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, said this recently via his verified Twitter handle, @fkeyamo, adding that there is no election in the world that would not record complaints of irregularities in certain areas.
He said, “Declaring certain aspects of an election or electoral process as ‘flawed’ is not synonymous as saying the whole process was a cataclysmic failure. This is the simple difference a whole bunch of people have failed to realise.”
According to him, the real issue to determine is whether the said irregularities affected the election to the extent that the loser(s) could have won or the winner could have lost.
“If you cancel an entire process each time some irregularities happen or are reported, we may conduct an election 100 times, and no winner would be announced.”
Also, he contended that it is only the judiciary that can determine the extent an ‘irregularities’ can affect the final outcome of the elections. And there are legal rules already laid down to achieve this.
“The EU report is NOT (and cannot be) a document that tells you who won or lost an election. It only reports the ‘irregularities’ noticed and makes recommendations for improvement in future elections.” He added.
