“Where the election is disrupted and the commission cannot vouch for the integrity of the process, we will not go ahead to make any declaration.”
Chairman of INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu stated this while speaking at a virtual event on Democracy and Elections in West Africa, organised by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies , Washington DC in collaboration with the Centre for Democracy and Development .
“While elections are disrupted, we should look far beyond the electoral commission. I think you put your fingers on the problem, on the political class and the security challenges. And that is why we have been engaging with them. On gender representation in politics, Yakubu regretted there is a zero turnout of female candidates for the scheduled elections.
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