Candidate Who Scored 35% of Votes Shouldn’t Be Declared President – Fayemi Backs OBJ

Eko Hot Blog reports that former Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, has said any presidential candidate who scored 35 percent of the votes in an election should not be declared the winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Fayemi, who was a former Minister of Solid Minerals, said this at an event marking the 60th birthday of Professor Udenta Udenta in Abuja on Tuesday afternoon.

He stated that Nigeria should reconsider an alternative to its current political system, saying its acrimonious outcomes have rendered it unsustainable, adding that Nigeria’s political structure should reflect the pattern of votes across the country.

Speaking at the event Fayemi said, “Today, I read former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s interview in The Cable saying our liberal democracy is not working and we need to revisit it, and I agree with him. We must move from the political alternatives. I think we are almost on a dead end of that.

“What we need is alternative politics. My own notion of alternative politics is that you can’t have 37 percent of the vote and take 100 percent of the spoil. It won’t work.”

Speaking further, Fayemi said temper wouldn’t be this elevated were the arrangements for picking a president different.

He added: “We must look at proportional representation so that the party that is said to have won 21 per cent of the votes will have 21 per cent of the government. Adversary politics bring division and enmity.”

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