Presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, said some candidates in elections would do anything to be declared winners by the Independent National Electoral Commission because they have their ways with the judiciary.
Kwankwaso dropped this bombshell that suggests the judiciary is usually compromised in election matters on Friday at the National Executive Committee meeting of the party.
“We are concerned about the way things turned out in the last election and maybe more in the off season elections and nobody is saying anything. People will say announce me and let them go to court because the court is their own, they know what to do with the court,” the ex-governor lamented.
NNPP came distant fourth in the Presidential election and won only Kano governorship seat.
This, Kwankwaso put down to alleged illegibility of the Party’s logo on the ballot papers; ” “With INEC here with us, it is an opportunity to say that all our members were not happy with the way our logo was presented on the ballot papers. It was so bad that when we had the international observers, they could not tell you what was contained in the logo.
“It is so sad that we had to face those challenges at the last minute. Most people, including myself had to struggle to identify our logo.
“The party will work out how to present our logo for the next elections. One of the problems with our logo is the quality of the printing and I want to appeal to INEC that now that we are going for elections in about three states, we don’t want to be in a hurry to go to court on some of these issues.
“I believe that under normal circumstances, what INEC presented as our logo is good enough in a civilised society to cancel the national elections because we were disenfranchisement and not properly represented on the ballot and that created so much difficulty for our candidates and our party.”
