EUROCENTRIC ARROGANCE!
July 07
21:45
2023
EUROCENTRIC ARROGANCE!
“The idea of Election Observer Mission is one of the best ever muted because it promotes healthy growth of democratic process. Following the end of World War II, the international community formulated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) which made democratic principles a foundation of the new prevailing system.
It proclaimed: “The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of the government, and this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.” Hence, the Election Observer Missions was born.
However, this is supposed to be carried out in reference to the sovereignty of individual nations because every clime has their cultures, civilizations and diverse peculiarities. But in recent times, these so-called advanced economies have craftily leveraged on Election Observer Mission to discredit the electoral processes of most developing economies, thereby opening their leaders up for manipulation and fictitious and dubious sanctions.
It is regrettable to note that the recent reports by the European Union Observer Mission (EU EOM) to the 2023 general elections in Nigeria is nothing short of brazen display of Eurocentric arrogance. The report shows utter assault on the country’s national sovereignty and peculiarities. The EU EOM reports is mischievously crafted to weigh opinion against the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led government, and possibly to influence the presidential election petitions court’s judgement. But their tricks are dead on arrival.”
AmanaOnline –from Gidado Ibrahim
