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Constitution Amendment: Votes Should Be Attributed To Candidates Rather Than Parties - Lawyer
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December 2, 2016
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12:39Now PlayingA Nigerian lawyer, Ikechukwu Ikeji, is of the view that votes in elections should count for the candidate of a political party and not the party.
Mr Ikeji said that with such clause in the Electoral Act, any dead candidate of a political party dies with the votes he had gotten if the candidate died in the process of the election, as seen in Kogi State last year.
“It is fair that votes to be attached to a candidate and not to the political party.
“Presently, as it is, votes count for the party not the candidate.
“By the intendment of the constitution, the vote belongs to the candidate,” he stated.
The Supreme Court while giving its ruling on suit that was filed by one of the candidates in the Kogi election against the emergence of Mr Yahaya Bello as the governor, apportioned the vote to the political party, declaring Mr Yahaya, who completed an election that late Abubakar Audu started.
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