The Nation Newspaper INEC can't conduct credibleelections with partisan RECs- Falana
can’t conduct credible elections by appointing card-carrying members of political parties as the commission’s Resident Electoral Commissioner .
He made this declaration in an interview with Channels TV. His words : , “Since 1999, we have had this terrible experience of a ruling party trying to populate the electoral body with party loyalists and sympathizers, and that was what led to the amendment of the constitution.
Falana continued: “You can’t have a card-carrying member of a political party or a loyalist of a political party to be a Resident Electoral Commissioner or a national commissioner; you complicate the problem for INEC to have credible elections”.The Senate, on Thursday, confirmed the three remaining RECs after the first seven of the 10 appointed by President Tinubu were confirmed on Wednesday.
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