Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana says Electoral Act amendments without enforcement is solely a waste of time

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Falana stated this on Sunday in an interview on Come up Tv monitored by DAILY POST.

In line with him, the issue will not be the absence of legal guidelines, however the refusal of the political class to implement them.

He stated what issues at the moment in Nigeria will not be ideology or high quality of illustration, however the achieve from defections.

The senior lawyer added that individuals abandon the events that elected them, embrace new ones, and face no penalties, stressing that such is the true menace to the nation’s democracy.

“We function in an environment of reckless impunity. The continued amendment train is time losing if there’s no enforcement. We’ve got all the time had a really steep penalties on buy of votes. Thuggery and the remainder of them.

“However members of the political class, the ruling events, have by no means despatched the engine to arrest and cope with electoral offenders.

“Way back to 2008, the Wale panel beneficial the institution of an electoral offenses fee to arrest offenders and prosecute them. No regime, together with the one which campaigned for electoral reforms, has ever thought of organising that now, what’s the huge deal now?

“We wish to enhance marketing campaign funds and no one has ever complied with that. The one vital political level in Nigeria at the moment is the gale of defections, and no one is speaking of that, even within the proposed amendment,” he stated.