Tinubu should embrace universal best practices in making these appointments or else, he risks being seen as a leader mired in the morass of deception...
Of the controversies and flip-flops that have trailed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s numerous appointments since he assumed office barely five months ago, possibly the most dangerous and consequential to Nigeria’s democracy was theThese appointments violate and negate the principles of fairness and impartiality, alongside extant laws that seek to protect the sanctity of Nigeria’s elections and democracy, such as the 1999 Constitution and the Electoral Act.
Mr Etekamba Umoren is a known associate of the Senate President, Mr Godswill Akpabio, who held senior political appointments under him as governor in Akwa Ibom State, on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party , and who subsequently decamped to the APC alongside Mr Akpabio in 2018. In a video of his induction into the ruling party, he could be seen accepting a broom, which is an emblem of the APC, from Mr Akpabio on a stage, as he chanted the party’s slogan loudly.
Also, in the statement put out, the Groups further declared that: “Messrs. Etekamba Umoren and Isah Shaka Ehimeakhe are not only members of the ruling All Progressives Congress but have publicly declared their membership and campaigned for the party wearing attires of the party at campaigns and public events.”
It is unthinkable that the Senate approval of these partisans equally came on the heels of its recent retreat in Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State, with taxpayers money, organised by the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies , during which a former Chairman of INEC, Attahiru Jega observed that, “We have seen, in 2023 elections, the damaging effect of how people in the corridors of power get their client/partisan nominees appointed, without being thoroughly screened, and then they...
The late President Umaru Yar’Adua, the ultimate beneficiary of that most notorious electoral heist, despite the Supreme Court’s affirmation of his victory, unabashedly admitted that the election that brought him to office was flawed and vowed to remedy the process. Without learning from our electoral fits and starts, as the rest of the progressive world is doing, our democratic journey will continue to saunter. In Kenya, partisans are not appointed to its electoral commission. And informed by their 2017 ugly experience, President William Ruto has signed into law in 2023, a statute that overhauls the panel that selects members of the electoral umpire.
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