Stakeholders
in the Nigerian Governance Projects have been advised to consider the review of
processes that produce leaders in the country. This is the position of Mr.
Adebiyi Rasheed Ademola, a Strategic Communication Specialist, in an exclusive interview
with the Infoprations.
According
to him, a review is necessary because leadership recruitment is key in any
democratic setting. “How refined or crude the leadership recruitment process is
will determine the kind of leaders a country will eventually get.”
On
the country’s preparations towards 2019 general elections, Mr. Adebiyi, who co-founded
Positive Campaign Initiative, Nigeria with other Research and Communications
Experts, said: “2019 election would show how much improvement the electoral
management body in Nigeria has made on the electoral process in terms of
improved technology to add credibility value to the process. Now, rigging as was
done before would become an impossibility.
This implies that the people’s votes would count and that politicians
would take the people more seriously.”
He
frowned at the deploying of more money by the politicians in the recent
elections to induce voters to vote for them.
“This
was witnessed in Anambra, Ondo and then substantially in Ekiti which had a
spiral effect on the just concluded Osun election. In a way, we have to watch
out for this new evil in the 2019 election. If we are ready to ensure our
democracy works, we should have an improved election and elect for ourselves a
president which the majority believes has the capacity to run the country in
the next four years.”
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