Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana has made it known that no leader in Nigeria can annul elections in the country as was the case in 1993. He made this known at the inauguration of the League of Anambra Professionals Legal Defence Initiative, held in Lagos on Monday. In his words; 
“unlike in 1993 when the military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, successfully annulled an election, that is no longer possible. Whoever does that now will end up in The Hague.He is likely to be tried for crimes against humanity because if you annul an election, you are likely to have a monumental violence in the country which will lead to crimes against humanity.Before the 2015 elections, the ICC warned that if there was any problem in Nigeria, anybody
who was responsible would be arrested and charged like former President Laurent Gbagbo of Cote d’Ivoire. That was the atmosphere under which President Goodluck conceded victory.”Falana said revealed that his reason for speaking was to assure Nigerians that election could no longer be annulled in Nigeria. “That belongs to the past,” he declared. 
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