On Monday, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu vacated his chairmanship position following expiration of his tenure. Alongside Mr Yakubu, five other national commissioners also left the commission to kick start a new life. The Ex-chairman, handed over to a retired Air Vice Marshal, Ahmed Mu’azu who left his …
On Monday, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission , Professor Mahmood Yakubu vacated his chairmanship position following expiration of his tenure. Alongside Mr Yakubu, five other national commissioners also left the commission to kick start a new life.
As a newspaper with interest to strengthen democracy and speak truth to power on behalf of the masses, in this analysis, we look at the activities of Nigeria’s electoral body since inception and then answer the question many Nigerians have been asking; “is the electoral body and its officials independent or not?”.
Ordinarily, members of the commission commissions are often appointed by the president. The tendency of selecting his loyalists is high and when those occupying the office are not going by the directive of the presidency, they may risk removal. Anyone who has drank from the water of history will recall how General Babangida treated the electoral body chair, Humphrey Nwosu in 1993.
INEC also claimed some candidates were disqualified a night to the election and since then, Nigeria began to have uniformed elections. In fact opposition parties’ candidates in Kogi, Anambra and Adamawa states were excluded on ballots.
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