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Defection Does Not Warrant Forfeiture Of Elective Office - Idahosa Part3

A former member of the House of Representatives, Mr West Idahosa, on Sunday disagreed with the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, on the rule of defection by holders of elective positions in Nigeria. "It is not democratically correct that because you defect from one party to another, you ought to forfeit your seat or vacate that office to occasion a bye-election. You have to look at established democracies to reach this conclusion that I have just made," he said on Politics Today. Mr Idahosa also noted that we are in an evolutionary democracy and the status quo should be maintained until Nigerians "are able to identify one or two parties as the authentic vehicles for choosing candidates" and insisting that "until we get there, it will be difficult to decree into existence the attempt to confine an elected public office holder to his political party even when he defers in terms of obligations based on his views for which he sought election".