The Nigerian government has been advised to implement electronic voting system in all elections.
A Public Affairs Analyst, Mr Chima Nnaji, gave the suggestion on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Wednesday.
“Why don’t we at this particular time, go electronic – full blast? Some people have held us hostage and they want to liquidate everybody who have the right to vote.
“Government should organise the environment so that there would be an opponent respondent relationship,” he said.
Giving his opinion about the security situation in Rivers State, the lawyer said that some politicians had contributed in killing the industry.
“Politics has been bastardised because it has been taken to the height of violence.
“The electoral process or ballot box had been said to be the killer, but now, people displace their aggression on innocent voters – either to crash them or cajole them.
“We have always advocated that we should take the conversation a little bit higher than getting fixated on all the tensions,” he added.
In an interview with Rivers State Resident Electoral Commissioner on the programme, Aniedi Ikoiwak said the sensitive materials would arrive the state on Wednesday.
Mr Ikoiwak said: “By today (Wednesday), we are expecting the sensitive materials which means we have deployed our non-sensitive materials to the local governments, we have concluded training of SPOs and today, we will conclude training of POs while the training of Collation Officers and Returning Officers would be concluded tomorrow”.
He , however, appealed to the people of Rives State to maintain peace during the elections.
“We are appealing to people and we are also talking to security agencies – interrogative committees to deal with the security situation.
“Ours is to appeal to the security agents to save lives and property of the people,” he added.
