99 percent of voters have no clue of what there are doing – Agbakoba

Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Olisa Agbakoba, has questioned the level of governmental consciousness among Nigerian voters and suggested that the state whitethorn yet request to see stricter elector eligibility standards.

He argued that wide vote-buying and debased governmental acquisition person weakened antiauthoritarian accountability and allowed mediocre enactment choices to thrive.

Agbakoba spoke connected Monday during an interrogation connected Frontline, a nationalist affairs programme connected Eagle 102.5 FM, Ilese-Ijebu, monitored by our analogous successful Abeokuta.

According to him, galore politicians intentionally debar educating voters due to the fact that politically informed citizens are much apt to situation atrocious governance and cull inducement politics.

“If we proceed with this, due to the fact that the honorable information is this: 99 percent of those who clasp elector cards person nary hint what they are doing. They person nary clue. All those my aged aunties successful my colony successful Onitsha, they person nary thought what’s happening. Yet they each transportation elector cards, and you springiness them 2 1000 naira and they ballot anyhow they like.”

He besides expressed interest implicit the prime of Nigeria’s governmental people and electoral process, arguing that governmental recruitment has go dangerously anemic and mostly driven by wealth alternatively t...