Courts shouldn’t determine election outcome – Victor Umeh

So it’s not about promising a free and fair election; they have to do that to the latter to ensure that confidence in the electoral process will be enhanced, and the only way to enhance and protect the sanctity of the ballot box is by ensuring that the votes of the electorate count in determining who wins the election.“It’s a very bad culture in Nigeria that people will go into an election with the mindset that they will be declared winner at all costs, whether they receive the votes or not, and ask the people who actually won the election but were denied to go to court.”It’s a statement that is not harmful in the sense that what we want is a credible, free, and fair election where all the votes will be counted and recorded in the prescribed forms, and those votes should be the determinants of the actual election.