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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A Professor of Communications at Baze University, Abiodun Adeniyi, has suggested why Nigeria\u2019s elections are always shrouded in dispute.<\/p>\n

Speaking during an interview on Arise Television\u2019s \u2018Prime Time\u2019 on Friday, Adeniyi said elections are always contested and disputed because there is no transparency.<\/p>\n

He added that the bane of Nigeria\u2019s democracy was elections, stressing that to grow the nation\u2019s democracy, every hand must be on deck to make elections credible.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously no one benefits because often times, we celebrate the longevity and the fact that democracy has stayed 26 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I\u2019ve also highlighted the fact that the bane of our democracy is election, electioneering, the fact that we are so vociferous about it, always contested, always disputed, and it is disputed because there is no transparency. It\u2019s often we find it difficult to conduct free, fair, credible and transparent election.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe major problem we have identified, and we have also said that to grow a democracy, to consolidate it, to make it much more imbued with integrity, we need to do everything possible to make it open, transparent, credible, and one way to do this is the ramping up of technology into the process.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo whenever citizens see anything that appears to deviate from that trajectory, it becomes very concerning, and that\u2019s why the communication that came out from the Senate was very disturbing, until we started having some kind of problems with semantic and people started wondering that, is it a matter of inappropriate communication, miscommunication and such other things. As we speak now, I think they see a bit of confusion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. A Professor of Communications at Baze University, Abiodun Adeniyi, has suggested why Nigeria\u2019s elections are always shrouded in dispute. Speaking during an interview on Arise Television\u2019s \u2018Prime Time\u2019 on Friday, Adeniyi said elections are always contested and disputed because there is no transparency. 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