Poser for our Judges and INEC
It should be surprising if this has not always been the practice.However, it would
be admonished here that our judges and justices always seek to benefit
from expert opinion whenever they are confronted with intricate issues. For
instance, the issue of whether or not votes cast in an election belong to the
candidates in that election or their political parties, should have warranted the
need to solicit the opinion of an intelligent professor of politics in the relevant
field.
Our political system and practice benefit from the American approach.We have
just witnessed the American presidential election, preceded by debates as well as
campaigns and fluctuating opinion polls.The characters,utterances, and antecedents
of major contestants were laundered in the public space-all in the interest of voters
making choices that resonate or approximate with their desires.
Assuming the American presidential election was inconclusive for one reason or
the other,would it have been accepted in the American political practice that a candidate
who did not participate in these processes was drafted in to inherit the votes
already cast for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump,in the jaundiced assumption
that votes cast in an election belong to the political party and not the candidates in that
election?.
The motive of my poser is to ensure that, rather than celebrate what is shoddy or expedient,
we always seek solutions that are reasonable in logic and,therefore, can stand the test of time.
Anthony Akinola,
Oxford, UK
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