Founding father of Stanbic IBTC Financial institution Plc, Atedo Peterside, has slammed Nigeria’s judiciary, accusing it of failing woefully within the facet of electoral reform.
Peterside made the accusation on Monday in an interview on ‘Politics As we speak’, a programme on Channels Tv monitored by DAILY POST.
He alleged that the judiciary has failed to stay as much as the required customary and expressed help for an electoral reform that will shift the burden of proof to INEC.
“I heard former Bayelsa Governor Dickson saying within the Senate that we’ve to amend the Electoral Act in some essential method.
“See, that is the place our judiciary has not lived as much as the required requirements. it has failed woefully. I agree with Senator Dickson that the burden of proof ought to shift to INEC.
“You’ll be able to’t enable a state of affairs the place INEC can do something, convey out garbage outcomes, mutilated and the whole lot, after which argue that it’s for the sufferer to show that what they’ve achieved is fallacious, when even a blind man can see that what they’ve achieved is fallacious,” he stated.
The founding father of Anap Basis decried {that a} majority of Nigerians have misplaced confidence in each the electoral physique and the judiciary.
He warned that individuals may resort to self-assist in future elections if nothing is finished to revive belief within the system
