66% of Nigerians voted against Tinubu in 2023 - Makinde seeks electoral law review

Presidential campaigner of the Allied Peoples Movement, APM, successful the 2027 wide elections, Engr. Seyi Makinde, has called for a reappraisal of Nigeria’s electoral process, proposing that statesmanlike candidates should unafraid astatine slightest 50 per cent positive 1 of the full votes formed to look arsenic winner.

Makinde argued that the existent law proviso allows a campaigner to go president without securing the enactment of the bulk of voters, raising concerns astir the level of nationalist acceptance enjoyed by elected leaders.

The Oyo State Governor spoke during a unrecorded interrogation connected Bauchi Radio Corporation, BRC, Bauchi, connected Friday nighttime arsenic portion of activities to emblem disconnected his statesmanlike run connected Saturday.

He cited the 2023 statesmanlike election, successful which President Bola Tinubu secured somewhat supra 34 per cent of the full votes cast, arsenic an illustration of wherefore the electoral process needed to beryllium reviewed.

He said, “In Nigeria, nether the constitution today, to go the president, you tin people 33 per cent of the votes. So that means 67 per cent of the radical tin ballot against you. But if you person a elemental bulk and you person 25 per cent successful two-thirds of the states of the federation positive FCT, past you go the president.”

Makinde said the ou...