The senator representing Ondo Central and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture Colleges and Institutions, Adeniyi Adegbonmire, has said off-season elections help the electorate to ensure that their votes count.
Adegbonmire, who addressed reporters in Akure, the Ondo State capital, said the National Assembly would not pass any law to stop off-season elections.
The senator noted that the country would head towards perdition, if its leadership were installed by means other than the ballot box.
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He said: “It is a constitutional matter. The Supreme Court has been clear about it. The constitution says you shall be sworn in for a term of four years. That four-year period starts from the day you are sworn in as a governor.
“The Electoral Act says you must have two-thirds of local governments’ majority votes, but the constitution doesn’t stipulate that. So, there is a criterion for winning election and there is another criterion about tenure. The tenure is in the constitution. Technically, it means that the man that occupies the seat before he was thrown out was not duly elected and was, technically, never a governor.”