Fayose’s criticisms senseless, non-intelligent –Nnamani

Former Senate President and current chairman of the Electoral Reform Committee, Ken Nnamani has described Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose’s criticism of his committee as ‘senseless’.

He said the governor is engaging in a brand of criticism that does not “require intelligence to carry out,” adding that the criticisms do not only lack in wisdom but also infringe on people’s right and freedom of association.

Nnamani stated this during the maiden public hearing of the committee which started in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital on Wednesday.

Fayose had described the committee as being “dead on arrival” and called on Nnamani to resign because he is member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party.

A representative of the governor who is a member of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Idowu Omotoso, made the statement on behalf of the governor.

He said, “If this government is actually serious about electoral reform, then the chairman of this committee should resign and allow an independent person take over.

“Senator Ken Nnamani is a Southeast regional leader of APC and hence incapable of rising above primordial and party sentiments to give us anything different from electoral inconclusiveness that we have at the moment.”

But reacting, Nnamani says the criticisms makes no sense, adding that it lacked wisdom and infringed on people’s rights and freedom of association.

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“It doesn’t require any intelligence to criticise. The governor feels that since Nnamani is no more in PDP, he is going to make sure that the report would favour APC, that doesn’t make sense because the report will still go to Mr President and the National Assembly.
“So far, we don’t have independent candidates in the National Assembly. You don’t go there to talk about the party, it concerns the people, it is the people that will legitimise what we agreed upon here.

“The easier thing to do is to criticise, the guy who represented the governor I wanted him to be here since he said he’s the chairman of a committee, I don’t know if they make rules that the bills they pass is purely for PDP.”

Nnamani, a former member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) joined the APC months after President Muhammadu Buhari appointed him to head the Electoral Reform Committee.

 

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