Elections in 2023: Falana Worried About Personnel Compromise and Government Impunity Elections in 2023: Falana Worried About Personnel Compromise and Government Impunity

Femi Falana, a human rights attorney, questioned the validity of the presidential and National Assembly elections held last Saturday and charged that state governors, election officials, and security personnel had tainted the process.

Femi Falana, a human rights attorney, questioned the legitimacy of the presidential and National Assembly elections held last Saturday, accusing security personnel, election officials, and state governors of subverting the procedure.

In an exclusive interview with Channels Television, Falana stated, “I have not been impressed by the very dismal showing on the part of the Independent National Election Commission.”

“Nigerians” had been promised a legitimate election that would be peaceful and in which votes would be counted. Unfortunately, gangsters had free reign and assumed control in several areas.

On the part of the security forces, there was a compromise. A compromise was reached by some INEC officials. The behavior of certain governors was impune.

The Senior Attorney General of Nigeria (SAN) expressed optimism that the authorities would learn enough from the experience.

Because you could pinpoint areas where there were pockets of violence or illegality, he claimed that they were in “substantial conformity” with the Election Act.

In his opinion, INEC needs to start over, assess how the elections were managed, and consider the function of the ad hoc employees.

The Commission should make sure individuals detained for electoral offenses are brought before the appropriate tribunals as quickly as feasible, he added.

Those “arrested by the police or other security forces for interrupting the election, for announcing phony results or forging results, and for purposefully blocking people from voting,” he claims, are among the violators.

Falana claimed that prosecuting electoral violators would guarantee that the officials in charge of overseeing the following elections would be aware that “it’s not going to be business as usual.”