Read the full story...Elder statesman and leader of Pro-National Conference Coalition(PRONACO), Anthony Enahoro, has dismissed with a wave of the hand President Umaru Yar’Adua’s much-flaunted credential as an honest man.
He also dismissed the current effort by the government to reform the nation’s Electoral Act, saying that "there is no way we can have a free and fair election under this present system." Enahoro made this position known during an interview with Sunday Independent.
He said if Yar’Adua was a sincere man he should long have resigned his position as President immediately he admitted the controversial election that brought him to power was indeed flawed.
"I was impressed when the President acknowledged in far away Germany, before the Western world and their press, that the process that brought him in was faulty. But I was expecting him to follow it up. He has not done anything so far and I am still waiting. I would have thought that an honest man should have resigned his post on the basis of that, but he did not do that; I am still waiting for what he will do about it."
Enahoro, the elder statesman and leader of PRONACO, asserts that the flawed Nigerian presidential elections can not be fixed unless Yar'Adua gives up his presidency. Though he realized that the elections were flawed, Yar'Adua had no trouble accepting his new presidential position.
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So Monika, what is your opinion on the state of the elections in Nigeria?
They are flawed and corrupt, but things are on the way to getting better I think.
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