2023: US Election A Lesson For Nigeria — Senator

As Nigeria looks forward to the 2023 presidential election, the Senate Committee Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Senator Kabiru Gaya has said Nigeria must learn from the United States election by putting in place structures to ensure free, fair, and credible elections.

The senator made this known on Tuesday while speaking at the News Agency of Nigeria Forum in Abuja.

Gaya, however, said that the National Assembly Joint Committee on INEC and Electoral Matters will strive towards presenting an Electoral Bill that will ensure free, fair and credible elections in the country.

“I believe we have learnt a lot from the U.S and we have to put in place some kind of laws to prevent such from happening in Nigeria,” Gaya said. 

He said the controversies that followed the election were uncalled for because the U.S was a leading democratic nation in the world.

“It was embarrassing that the U.S. went through such crisis like a third world country,” he said.

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Gaya said that while monitoring campaigns between former President Donald Trump and Joe Bidden ahead of the election, he had predicted that Biden would win but that there would be a crisis afterwards.

He said that whenever there were political demonstrations in third world countries, the U.S would be the first to make a criticism.

He stated further, “It had now happened to them: we were all disappointed but I feel it was a lesson for us to learn from.

“And for Donald Trump to be a bit more stubborn and to encourage people to go and demonstrate was unfair for a president,” he said.

He, therefore, advised the U.S government to stay firm to prevent demonstrators from heating the polity.