- Safiu Kehinde
Seun Kuti, son of late Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of being responsible for poor turn out of voters during election in Nigeria.
Kuti, in a post on his official X handle on Sunday, claimed INEC discouraged voters from participating in election as the voices of the preferred choice are allegedly silenced by the election umpire.
According to him, only 20 to 21 million voters participate in elections out of over 90 million registered voters.
The activist and singer reiterated that most voters feel discouraged on account of poor political representation.
“Nigeria has over 90 million registered voters. How many people come out to vote? Maybe 20 million or 21 million voters. Almost 70 million voters no dey come out for every election.
“Every election we get for Nigeria at least 80 percent of the voters just stay at home. Because why? They do not feel represented by what is on ground. That is why I dey tell una say Nigerians no be mumu the way people dey talk say Dem be mumu.
“They don’t participate on the facade that they see and INEC is directly responsible for silencing those voices that they want in the political space.
“And when many of these people don’t hear those voices, na him dey cause all this different violent uprisings because of the lack of political representation.
“At the base of everything, when we don talk the big big English. When lie give ourselves on herdsmen and Boko Haram. When we talk finish, it is political representation that is lacking in those communities.” Seun Kuti said