Benue LG elections: , Sen Moro describes exercise an insult to democracy
…Urges Nigerians of good will to rise to occas
By Core Reporters
Irked by the gradual eroding of democracy in Nigeria championed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s All Progressives Congress (APC) led federal government, Senator Abba Moro (PDP) Benue South Senatorial has described the local government elections held in Benue State over the weekend as an insult to democracy.
The former minister of Interior lamented how democracy is sleeping off our hands, while he further described the weekend elections as a sham and a charade.
Sen. Morro who briefed newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja said Benue case is so pathetic and unfortunate, saying that the nonsense is taking place in a state where a clergymaan (Catholic Reverend Father) is a governor.
The Minority Leader opined that the LG Council Poll is a gradual destruction of the democracy, and I urge all Nigerians, all men of goodwill, to rise up to the challenge.
He revealed that all that the Nigerian governors are fighting for is the local government allocation.
He said, ““They are just after the money and put their surrogates there, so that they can have authority over the coffers of the various local governments, but I have been talking with some of my colleagues and some other commentators. We are prepared to face up the challenge.
“I was also told that some election took place in some isolated places in some local governments of Zone C, in Agatufo for instance, I was told that election took place in three council wards, including Ogule Kaduna, where a candidate of PDP scored 557,557 votes against 501 votes of the APC.
“It was so declared at the venue of the election, but of course, like it was observed in virtually all the places, no electoral materials were taken there, and so they had only photocopies of result sheets, even though the people say, okay fine, if you say photocopy that you have, record the results and give to us, and they recorded the results and gave to them, only for the headquarters of the Benue State Independent Electoral Commission to disavow those results.
“Similar things happened in other local governments where elections were held in some isolated council wards.
” PDP won in the only council ward where election was conducted, and unfortunately, they didn’t give the person the certificate of return, so that is what happened in Benue State over the weekend and Benue South Senatorial District in particular. Like I’ve said elsewhere, what happened in Benue State on election day was a scam” he reiterates.
