THE President of the Ijaw Nationwide Congress, Prof. Benjamin Okaba, has mentioned the rejection of the digital transmission of election outcomes by the Nationwide Meeting has uncovered those that need Nigeria to stay backward and unworkable.
Okaba spoke in Yenagoa on Monday through the formal opening of the workplace of the Nationwide Spokesman for Ijaw Youth Council, Ebilade Ekerefe, in addition to the commemoration of his one yr in workplace.
He described the taking pictures down of the modification invoice as anti-democratic, retrogressive and pathetic, including that fraudulent electoral processes had been the best problem affecting the nation from shifting ahead to the trail of sustainable improvement.
Okaba, who teaches Sociology on the Federal College, Otuoke, mentioned forces working in opposition to the nation’s progress had been at work to repeatedly promote and shield their egocentric pursuits.
The INC chief mentioned, “Nigerians know that the day the votes of the folks rely and the alternatives of the folks matter, quite a lot of issues will change on this nation and the important thing to having that’s to have a clear electoral course of.
“But when individuals who received voted and had the mandate to alter issues for higher on this nation nonetheless really feel that we should always go analog, retrogressive; it is rather pathetic.
“For me, it’s one other manner of claiming that lots of the leaders are usually not good leaders within the first place as a result of they don’t seem to be ready to guide this nation to greatness. They’re solely there to serve their egocentric functions, their private aggrandisement, private pursuits and never nationwide curiosity.”
He urged the nation’s leaders to take a cue from the INC’s election which was clean and clear and the outcomes electronically transmitted as voting was occurring.
Okaba, who declared that Nigeria was on the sting of the cliff with the enemies of the nation exhibiting extra impunity every day, known as for the unity of the Ijaw folks.
“In his remarks, Ekerefe, mentioned that the Ijaw youths would work with the INC to understand the Ijaw trigger.
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