Electoral Act: Don’t demonize, undermine Nigeria’s democracy – Okechukwu warns opposition

A founding subordinate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Osita Okechukwu, has cautioned the absorption against undermining and demonizing Nigeria’s ideology with “scaremongering.”

Okechukwu appealed to the absorption to desist from utterances susceptible of further discouraging elector information and undermining antiauthoritarian institutions.

Addressing journalists successful Enugu implicit the weekend, Okechukwu said ideology becomes the eventual casualty erstwhile governmental actors deploy antagonistic and scaremongering narratives that dampen citizens’ assurance successful the electoral process.

According to him, alternatively than resorting to blasted games and alarmist rhetoric, absorption leaders should emulate the strategical governmental organisation demonstrated by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who, helium noted invested clip and resources successful nationwide mobilisation of supporters and demonstrated enactment loyalty by stepping speech for the precocious erstwhile “President Muhammadu Buhari of blessed representation from time 1 successful the tone of interior ideology and obedience to zoning convention.”

While acknowledging that the projected Electoral Act 2026 whitethorn person its shortcomings, Okechukwu argued that it volition beryllium illiberal to “throw our babe ideology distant with the bathwater.”

“Whereas the Electoral Act 2026 has its downside, the truism is that it is importantly person to achieving real-time transmission of predetermination results th...