{"id":101416,"date":"2023-11-20T10:11:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T09:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/lessons-nigerians-need-to-learn-from-liberia-election-political-analyst-ejime"},"modified":"2023-11-20T13:41:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T12:41:20","slug":"lessons-nigerians-need-to-learn-from-liberia-election-political-analyst-ejime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/lessons-nigerians-need-to-learn-from-liberia-election-political-analyst-ejime","title":{"rendered":"Lessons Nigerians need to learn from Liberia election \u2013 Political analyst, Ejime"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A global political affairs analyst, Mr Paul Ejime says Nigeria and other African countries have a lot of lessons to learn from the just-concluded presidential election in Liberia.<\/p>\n

The election was won by Joseph Boakai, a former Vice President of the country, who defeated incumbent President, George Weah, in a keenly contested run-off election on Nov. 14.<\/p>\n

Boakai got 50.89 per cent of the vote having polled 712,741 votes with nearly 99.58 per cent of polling stations counted, according to results from the Nov. 14 election announced by the National Electoral Commission Chairperson, Mrs Davidetta Lansanah.<\/p>\n

Weah got 696,520 votes, representing 49.11 per cent of the total votes.<\/p>\n

Reacting to the election in a telephone interview with NAN on Sunday, Ejime, an international media and communication expert, rated the election as transparent.<\/p>\n

He said that the electoral body displayed a level of trust by conducting a transparent and credible election.<\/p>\n

According to him, there is a lesson to be learnt in transparency, confidence in government institutions and trust in the electoral umpire.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the key issues in Liberia during the first round of the election in October is that the voters did not wait for the results to be counted. They cast their votes and went back to their homes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt shows a level of trust. Election is supposed to be a process not an event. It requires an electoral umpire that can be trusted.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen people can trust the electoral commission and the political agents can be the eyes and ears of the political parties, you know that democracy is growing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Ejime described the election as a \u201cmulti-stakeholder enterprise\u201d with separation of powers among the executive, legislature and the judiciary.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should have a judiciary that can dispense justice, a legislature that is independent of the executive and the judiciary.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people should not engage in vote buying and selling, ballot box coup and political coup, which give rise to military coup.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe judiciary should understand that it is the last hope of the common man; if the executive and the legislature trample on the citizen, they run to the judiciary, if the judiciary is involved in truncating democracy, who will the people run to?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe military should learn that their job is in the protection of the nation\u2019s territory and not to lead in political governance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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