Mr Patrick Titus, Journalist, Akwa Ibom

It boils down to the Electoral Act, we have in place. The law we are using in Nigeria is borrowed. We do not have a law of our own, based on our cultural values, norms and the society we find ourselves as Nigerians; these should define our law to make it peoplecentred. The Electoral Act lacks integrity and does not look at the real meaning of what is being practised. Nigeria adopted such law in a hurry, otherwise, it should be stated that if you were elected to serve on the platform of a party, you should be obligated to stay in that party and serve on that platform until the end of your tenure, instead of switching political parties. Once you are elected on a political platform, you are not going there to serve your interest. The practice of decamping to another political party should be stopped. There should be a law in place where you sign an undertaking that you would remain in a political party and If you decamp, you would forfeit that office. Doing that would check that problem.