Ahead of the 2023 General Elections, the former Minister of Information and Culture, Prof. Jerry Gana, has said the 2023 poll has every opportunity to be free, fair and credible.
Prof. Gana disclosed this at the 11th edition of the Change We Need Nigeria Initiative Lecture Series on Friday in Abuja.
He said; “We hope the technology will work on election day, we think that the BIVAS that they brought out is credible but it should work. There is every opportunity this time around that the election is going to be credible and fair.’’
‘’The former process of collation was not healthy because results were changed after leaving the polling centres before it gets to the collation centres but this time around there is hope and encouragement.’’
One of the panellist who spoke at the event, Dr Mike Ezekhome (SAN), said the Country’s presidential candidates can hardly solve Nigeria’s problem considering the level of rot, systematic issues and others.
He said; ‘’Whether you are ‘Tinubulising’, ‘Atikulated’ or an ‘Obidient’, you cannot solve the problem of Nigeria because the system is rotten, it is systemic and it has to first change. You have to first go to fundamentals.’’
‘’We must have a people’s constitution subjected to a referendum and the plebiscite of the people. It was done on the 10 of August 1963 when the Midwest region was created from the Western Region.’’