Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of the house of representatives,
says the European Union (EU) commission should endeavour to get balanced views
while monitoring the upcoming elections.
Gbajabiamila said this when the EU election observation
delegation visited his office in Abuja on Friday.
He asked the delegation to speak with multiple stakeholders
to get the true accounts of the elections outcome before making their
conclusions.
He said as a multi-ethnic and multi-religious country, Nigerians are bound to have different biases and opinions that represent their interests.
“We are prepared for
[elections], and those saddled with the responsibility, from Mr. President, the
National Assembly, INEC, the political parties, and all the other stakeholders
along the chain, we are all ready to make the votes count,” he said.
“The electoral law is in place. We have done all we needed
to do, and now we have to wait and see how things pan out.
“Election is a process that leads to the final day. It’s
very complex, but at the same time it can be very simple, depending on the
attitude of the actors.
“We are hoping there
will be no problems in the area of deployment of technology and also security
issues, we hope not to worry about it much.”
The speaker expressed concern over the low collection of
permanent voter cards (PVC) but said “it is our firm belief that the number of
PVC collections will be ramped up way before the elections proper”.
Barry Andrews, the leader of the delegation, said the EU
mission will diligently observe the polls, just as it had done on previous
occasions.
He said the body has a reliable data-collection methodology
to give a report on the outcome of the polls.
He said the mission will formally unveil its work plan on Monday in Abuja and would release a preliminary report on the elections two days after the conclusion of voting.
Why must Nigeria accept foreign countries to monitor his election. Have Nigeria ever managed elections in the US or in European Union. Foreign delegates are responsible for irregularities happening during our elections . The EU can never accept African countries to supervise their elections. EU and the US already have their candidates in mind, a candidate who will allow them spill Nigeria mineral resources and force Nigerians into acute poverty. They don’t want someone that can make the country work and be autonomous. US and the EU are enemies of Nigeria because they don’t want the country to industrialise and succeed.
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