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| Dame Pauline Tallen |
Pauline Tallen receives Award, commends
President Buhari for withholding assent to Electoral Bill
By Dickson Gupiya
December 10, 2018
Dame
Pauline Tallen has been described as a strong character worthy of emulation by
the women folk.
This
was the submission of the President of Voice Out Vanguard (VOV) and founder of
Stella Whyte Foundation, Okhuelegbe Ebosetale during the presentation of an
Award of Excellence to Mrs Tallen as VOV female ICON of the year
VOV
is a non-Governmental, non-political Organization which objectives is to see that violence free and credible elections that would usher in credible people and in
turn yield good governance be the ultimate thing for consideration by the
electorates, launched its “Vote Right” campaign initiative over the weekend at
Hill Station Hotel Jos.
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| Shabul Mazadu, Media Consultant to Dame Pauline Tallen |
According
to Ebosetale, Mrs. Tallen, is a woman of noble character, strength (both
physical and moral) who is also firm and decisive.
“Mrs.
Tallen displays the moral strength of a woman because she always stand firm and
makes sure nothing dissuades her from doing what is right. She is a woman and a
mother than can be trusted. She has the niche of touching the lives of people across the country positively irrespective of their backgrounds. She is
diligent with personal sense of responsibility. Many people look up to her. To
me, she is my mentor. These and many more formed the basis and eventually
earned her this award.” She said.
Receiving the award on behalf of Tallen, Shabul Mazadu, her media consultant appreciated the organizers for taking notice of Tallen’s
contributions saying that the award would definitely spur her into doing more.
He however stated that it was in the nature of Dame Tallen to reach out and touch people's lives positively,
consequently, she never do it with the aim of drawing the attention of the
public. Mazadu further stated that VOV’s philosophy was in line with Tallen’s
who he said is an ardent advocate of free, credible and transparent elections which is the only panacea to good governance. "Her Excellency has been an advocate of peaceful
elections because she doesn't subscribes to violence.
She
believes that President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to see to the conduct of
peaceful atmosphere and credible elections where every vote must counts. She
is calling on all youths to shun all forms of violence.”
To
this end, he said Tallen sends her total support as the organization embarks on
its campaign of enlightenment and awareness on how to vote, why to vote and who
to vote even as we approach the 2019 general elections. On the refusal by
President Buhari to give assent to the amended Electoral Bill, the Media
consultant said Dame Pauline strongly commended Mr. President for exercising
his constitutional responsibility in an appropriate manner for the sake of our
nation.
"Since
the coming on board of President, Muhammadu Buhari, he had been very careful
and discreet in handling affairs of the country. He doesn't want to cause confusion that will
compound problems, because he has met enough of those confusion and problems on
ground. He is trying to resolves these confusion and problems at all cost.
"Therefore,
Dame Pauline feels it’s too late for the electronic voting to be introduced
because going by the past elections in Nigeria, very soon INEC will start recruitment
just few weeks to the elections.
“So imagine,
when they would buy the machines, install them and test-run the machines to
ensure their effectiveness? Even those people that would mann the machines;
when will they be trained to put them into practice and ensure that there will
be no flaws? One will just say it will be too short for that to be done”.
He said
those Nigerians that are trying to make mountain out of the President's refusal
to assent to the electoral bill, should know that any confusion during the 2019
elections can plunge the country into serious crisis.
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| Mazadu, displaying the Award he received on behalf of Dame Pauline Tallen on Saturday |
According to
him, "We cannot tell the National Assembly to override or not to override
the President as some People are saying, but they should know that if they
(NASS), overrides him to go ahead and introduce the electronic voting, if it
fails and there is a negative consequences, it will then not be the fault of
the President rather, it should be their fault.
“If they
(NASS) feel that they know more and make it to be a crash programme and once
there are flaws, they will be the ones to bear the consequences.
"As far
as she is concerned, Mr. President is trying to avoid anything that would
distort electioneering and the electoral process as he has promised to conduct
free, fair and credible elections." He said
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