SENATE NEWS: 2015 – Why I do not support disaporan voting in Nigeria – David Mark

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LEGISREPORTS NG – The President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, has said the possibility of granting Diaspora Voting Right to Nigerians living abroad is absolutely not feasible due to the associated problems involved.

He also said that local government autonomy was very crucial in order to ensure that it was better run.

Senator Mark made the disclosure while addressing Nigerians during a courtesy visit with Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United States, Professor Adebowale Adefuye, at the embassy’s chancery in Washington, DC, on Wednesday.

The Senate President said that Diaspora voting would not work for Nigeria, stressing that the logistics involved were just too cumbersome.

“The logistics are too many and they are not there right now so we will not be able to do it. You know we tried to introduce the idea before but when we discovered the problems, the logistics involved to make it work, we had to drop it for the sake of the nation. There is no way we will do diaspora voting that it will not cause problems because political parties will always complain that we have rigged elections and we all know what problem that allegation can cause in Nigeria, so we do not want that to happen.

“Even Nigerians in the Diaspora will say that the officials of our foreign Embassies have manipulated such elections in favour of a certain political party. Again, the local politics in Nigeria, if brought to the Diaspora, will end up dividing Nigerians living abroad. Now, you are very united but there will be a division the moment we introduce diaspora voting,” he said.

“Even Nigerians in the Diaspora will say that the officials of our foreign Embassies have manipulated such elections in favour of a certain political party. Again, the local politics in Nigeria, if brought to the Diaspora, will end up dividing Nigerians living abroad. Now, you are very united but there will be a division the moment we introduce diaspora voting,” he said.

Standing5: ^Yes they are.
If you think i am lying go ask those of them who were attacked in SA.

redsun: He knows that only a born foo;l can wake up in the morning to go to polling booth to vote for an immortal thief like him.Most nigerians in diaspora seems to have seen the light apart from those that are still stuck in nigerian way,church,tribalism and all dem BS.

No rational human being can waste his or her vote on any frontline nigerian politician at the moment,it is leaving your door wide open at night for armed robbers to come and rob you.

By 2007, there were 28 countries in Africa where external voting was exercised in one form or the other.(23) As can be seen in Tables 1 and 2 below, some countries have extended the right to vote only to people that are outside of the country in the service of the state, such as diplomats and armed forces. Other countries have restricted entitlement according to the length of the period one has resided outside of its borders.