Legal luminary, Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, has kicked against Section 65 of the Electoral Act, saying it is a very dangerous act in our electoral system,
Olanipekun said: “To me [it] is a very dangerous section, so novel in the sense that, here you have a section that empowers a returning officer after returning to review his decision within a period of seven days.”
Olanipekun made the remarks yesterday when he paid a private visit to Governor Biodun Oyebanji in his office in Ado Ekiti yesterday. He pointed out that he is not aware of any similar section in previous electoral acts, or any similar section in any of the electoral acts of any country in the world. He added: “The Chief Returning Officer is the Chairman of INEC, meaning you can return someone as President today, and tomorrow, when there are agitations here and there, he may withdraw his decision, saying “I am revising myself and am now returning somebody else”.”
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