The undesirability and illegality of interim government
By: Robert Obioha The 2023 general election, especially the February 25 presidential poll, has attracted much attention and generated more heat and controversy than the March 18 exercise for obvious reasons. The February 25 poll was a keen and close race between three main political gladiators with an army of cult supporters who strongly believe that their candidate must win the election. They are Bola Tinubu of APC, Atiku Abubakar of PDP and Peter Obi of LP. However, the 4th contender in the poll is the former governor of Kano State, Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP). In a close race like this where the All Progressives Congress (APC) won 12 states, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won 12 states and the Labour Party (LP) won 11 states plus the Federal Capital Territory which makes its win to be 12 states, and NNPP won only one state, there is bound to be disputations over the election results. Disputation of election result has become pa...