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abujagirl
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Senator David Mark, Senate president ruled out the possibility of granting Diaspora Voting Right to Nigerians living abroad.
"The logistics are too many and they are not there right now so we will not be able to do it. You know we tried to introduce the idea before but when we discovered the problems, the logistics involved to make it work, we had to drop it for the sake of the nation. There is no way we will do diaspora voting that it will not cause problems because political parties will always complain that we have rigged elections and we all know what problem that allegation can cause in Nigeria, so we do not want that to happen.
"Even Nigerians in the Diaspora will say that the officials of our foreign Embassies have manipulated such elections in favor of a certain political party. Again, the local politics in Nigeria, if brought to the Diaspora, will end up dividing Nigerians living abroad. Now, you are very united but there will be a division the moment we introduce diaspora voting," he said.