No free, fair election in Nigeria – Ugwanyi

The Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has declared that a free and fair election has not been conducted in Nigeria for a long years now.

Ugwuanyi made the remark when the Constitutional and Electoral Reform Committee led by Sen Ken Nnamani paid him a courtesy call in Enugu.

The governor noted that the dwindling fortunes of Nigeria’s democracy was the inability to conduct free and fair elections over the years.

According to Ugwuanyi, “It is a well known fact that our inability to conduct free and fair elections had impacted negatively on our efforts to deepen democracy over the years.

“Necessary reforms must, therefore, be carried out to resolve all the issues required to be carried out to promote peace and stability in the country.”

Nnamani, in his remark said the committee was working to repel some of the obsolete electoral laws.

“There is no constitutional requirement for public hearing but it has become conventional that no group has monopoly of knowledge. That is why we have come to seek the ideas of the public,” he said.