Delegate seeks death penalty for election riggers
A delegate, Alhaji Aliyu Abdulkarreem, has verbalized the National Conference is plenary of those he described as “active election riggers.”
Abdulkareem, who verbalized while contributing to the debate on the report by the Committee on Political Parties and Electoral Matters in Abuja on Tuesday, recommended that stiffer penalties must be put in place to daunt election rigging in the country.
He verbalized the outcome of election rigging in the country had been deplorable governance in Nigeria.
He, therefore, suggested that election riggers must be shot to accommodate as a deterrent to others.
Abdulkareem verbalized, “I want the conference to visually examine the issue of rigging in the country. It is giving us lamentable regime and that is why we are having deplorable governance. Election riggers must be shot. This conference is plenary of election riggers and I therefore move a kineticism that election riggers must be shot in order to accommodate as a deterrent to others.”
His contribution seemed not to go down well with majority of the delegates as they laughed, while others openly verbally expressed “no” to his recommendation.
In his contribution to the debate, Mr. Akin Arikawe, a retired permanent secretary, suggested that the recommendation of the committee that election riggers must be ostracized for 10 years afore being sanctioned to contest any elective office should be adopted.
“Election riggers must be ostracized for 10 years afore being sanctioned to contest elections. Election riggers must be penalized. We must be visually perceived to be solemn and we must take actions that are decisive,” he integrated.
In his contribution, another delegate, Senator Nnamdi Eriobuna, verbalized it was hapless that most political parties lacked ideology and that they culminate up apostatizing the voters.
While saying that political parties must be coerced to have clear and distinct ideologies, he additionally verbally expressed that any public office holder who defected should be made to lose his or her seat.
