Tuesday, July 10, 2007

legality or not

let me take up a representative example of the independent assessment of the 2007 election. this is pivotal to the question of legality or legitimacy of the INEC verdict which is the object of discourse.
German CHANCELLOR (Agela Merkel), and U.S official (Thomas Greenfield) faults nigeria (April) polls, its tiltled crises of governance in the nigerian GUARDIAN Newspaper front page, 24th may 2007
thus the president Yar Aduas invitation to the G8 meeting is more or less a mockery than approbation.
The polls was a step back in the conduct of elections that NDI (National Democratic Institute) has observed in every region of the world, such delay in the deliveryof essentialelectoral materials and in openig of polling sites is unprecedented...... Madeliein Albright, former U.S Scretary of state (Excerpted: Femi Adesina, saturday sun 28th april 2007 page 9. she said in a number of ways the electoral process failed the nigerian people. According to Albright, some of the flaws observed include ballot snatching and stuffing ,supply of inadequatepolling materials , under age voting, lackof secrecy,unverifiable electoral documents and involvement of SECURITY AGENTS IN MANIPULATING THE ELECTORALPROCESS(News Watch of may,2007page 20).
is ingnoble 48 noble laureates fley april polls calls for cancellation, Daily Sun 23 may 2007
an election without contest. DOYIN ABIOLA, sunday punch 06 may 2007.
With the summary above the president has credibility problem.it is an illegitimate government, that came in through selection process.
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