Africa Business News

A Peoples Democratic Party chieftain and ex-Aviation Minister, Osita Chidoka, says the Nigerian Constitution and other electoral laws should be amended to make any presidential candidate who doesn’t have over 50% of total votes cast in an election unfit for office. The ex-minister suggested runoffs for presidential polls where no candidate scores over 50% of the total votes cast. Chidoka says the votes got by President Bola Tinubu, then-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, put him in a serious minority that makes it difficult for him to push big agenda like petrol subsidy removal and the unification of the foreign exchange windows.