Human rights activist Omoyele Sowore has attributed the low turnout in the FCT area council elections to the signing of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill by President Bola Tinubu.
Sowore made this claim on Saturday at the 001 Polling Unit,
LEA Primary School, Kabusa, Abuja Municipal Area Council, AMAC.
The former presidential candidate stated that a lot of
Nigerians have lost confidence and trust in the electoral process.
“What we have discovered is that more and more of our people
are no longer voting, and I think it was made adverse by the newly signed
electoral law, which doesn’t give transparency the oxygen it needs because
democracy needs one oxygen, that’s trust.
“The moment trust is lost, people stay at home because there
is nothing more voluntary than voting – you take your money, you take your
time, and if you feel like the thing is not going to produce the results you
want, you don’t leave your house,” he said.
The publisher of Sahara Reporters, however, said the FCT
elections are not the elections that Nigerians are focusing on, but 2027
general elections.
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