Mike Igini, a former INEC REC in Akwa Ibom, says election petition tribunals are breeding grounds for corruption in the country.
November 23, 2022 6:10 PM
Igini spoke on Wednesday at an election dialogue series organised in memory of Ariyo Dare-Atoye, an activist who supported the promotion of electoral reforms in the country.The event, which held in Abuja, was organised by the Abuja School of Social and Political Thought.The former REC lamented that politicians brag of having friends as judges who can influence certain decisions in their favour.
“Section 137 is in effect, as before, at the tribunal a party will say I have 300 witnesses that it wants to invite. No more witnesses will be called again because the INEC election is purely documentary,” Igini said.“Every document you see in INEC has a code up to the polling unit. So, they use that to be hostile, to frustrate the election petitioner. What INEC, going forward, is [looking at] is that there can be elections where you don’t need anyone to go to the tribunal.
“We are going to end the business of election tribunals in this country and that is the direction INEC is going. The future of Nigeria is in our hands. The 2023 national election is so important because today Nigerians are fed up. There is anger in the land. There’s hunger in the land.”
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