‘Nigeria’s Politcal Problems Lie In Enforcement Of Laws’

Aconsultant and public affairs Analyst, Mr Jide Ojo has stated that Nigeria’s political problems lie in the enforcement of legal frame works in order to achieve credible, free and fair elections in the country.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with The Tide in Enugu State, shortly after presenting his lecture on the topic: “Reckoning with Accountability and Transparency Issues In Election Reporting,” last Monday,  Ojo stated that it would require the collective efforts of all stakeholders to record credible election in Nigeria.
Ojo maintained that election credibility or its success was not a stakeholder’s task, but multi task for all electoral stakeholders such as the media, Civil Society Oganisations (CSOs), Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), political parties, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the security agencies, among others to ensure that election is free, fair and credible in Nigeria.
“You can reform the laws as we have been doing since the beginning of this fourth republic and the formation of the Electoral Act. The greatest challenge we have in Nigeria was not the electoral laws, but in its enforcement.
He therefore, called on the regulatory agencies to double their efforts in ensuring that the full enforcement of the law takes its due cause in the soonest, while also calling on INEC to start enforcing campaigns finance regulations and to sanction political parties that failed to turned in the political reports on their elections as at when due.