The Citizens Advocacy for Social and Economic Rights has approached the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice, seeking to stop the 2015 general elections.
Executive Director of CASER, Barrister Frank Tietie, told journalists yesterday in Abuja that the election must not hold due to the current security challenges in Nigeria. Barrister Tiete accused the two dominant political parties, PDP and APC are not moved by the primary motive of governance, but for self gain.
Recalling the 2011 post-election violence, Tietie warned that the anarchy that will befall Nigeria might be greater, if the elections go on under the current situation.
While stating that CASER is not being sponsored to scuttle the 2015 polls, Barr Tietie asked the National Assembly to apply Section 135 sub-section 3 of the constitution, as the nation was currently in a state of war.
He further called for the invocation of the doctrine of necessity, for a Transitional Government, pending the right atmosphere to conduct elections. The Nigerian government intends to acquire one million electricity meters for consumers in the federation.
Announcing this at a town hall meeting in Abuja yesterday, Minister of Power, Professor Chinedu Nebo said the meters will be distributed by the eleven electricity distribution companies in Nigeria.
He added that meters would be installed in homes of unmetered electricity consumers immediately they are acquired. Professor Nebo decried the high level of sabotage of the ongoing power reform.
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