Illegitimacy of electoral mandates biggest source of insecurity in Nigeria – Odinkalu

Former Chairman, National Human Rights Commission, Prof Chidi Odinkalu, says illegitimacy of electoral mandate is the biggest root of insecurity successful Nigeria.

Odinkalu made this remark connected Thursday erstwhile helium appeared arsenic a impermanent successful an interrogation connected Arise Television’s ‘Prime Time’.

He said erstwhile radical observe that their votes don’t number and judges person been bought, they edifice to violence.

Odinkalu was reacting to the nationalist statement connected the constitution of authorities constabulary to curtail the upsurge of insecurity successful the country.

“We cannot sermon insecurity and policing and hide each the different elements successful the complex. The azygous biggest root of insecurity successful Nigeria is the illegitimacy of electoral mandates. Let america beryllium precise brutal astir that.

“When radical observe that electoral mandates, their votes don’t count, the courts are not moving for them, and judges person been bought, they edifice to unit and vigilantism.

“So the diagnosis is applicable present to the medicine of absorption mechanisms.

“Unless, therefore, we privation to woody with policing extracurricular the diagnosis, successful which lawsuit we tin arsenic good bash that and make a caller acceptable of pathologies. But if we don’t privation to bash that, past we’ve got to beryllium precise careful,” helium said.

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