The president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Yakubu Mai Kyau has said the presidential and National Assembly elections left behind many positive takeaways for the country. PREMIUM TIMES reports.
Mr. Mai Kyau stated this on a Channels TV programme, Politics Today Thursday night.
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“Now, talking about positives from the last election, quite a lot of them. And irrespective of the lapses that we’ve seen in the last election, there is so much to take from the last election. There has not been such a revolutionary election as the one we had on the 25 of February…Information Guide Nigeria
“For the first time in my assessment, you can’t have any arrogance of any political party going into the determination of who becomes what in the national assembly for instance. You’ve to align with other parties. Labour Party, Peoples Democratic Party, the APC. There are about eight political parties that have won elections into the parliament.NYSC Portal
“You see a sitting governor losing an election. My own brother, who is from my state, and my own state governor also lost the election. Many of those governors lost the election. The president-elect lost Lagos. That was almost unthinkable. The Vice Presidential candidate of the PDP lost his state to Labour Party as a sitting governor. The president (Muhammadu Buhari) who is for the ruling party also lost his own state to PDP. I mean a lot of these things that we never thought would happen,” Mr. Kyau said.
“I think we should not allow emotions to becloud some of the positives that we’ve got in this election. I’m one person who believes we make progress steadily. It might be slow but no matter how little, we should acknowledge and build on it. I think we’ve made a lot of progress and that should actually energize Nigerians to come out and vote on Saturday,” he said.JAMB Result
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