Olanipekun Wants Section 65 Of Electoral Act Expunged News
Olanipekun said he was not aware of any similar section in previous electoral acts, or any similar section in any of the electoral acts of any country in the world.“When you now invest in a returning officer of INEC, the power to do and undo, the power to return and review his decision is dangerous to the polity”
He urged the National Assembly that they can still remove that proviso and called on all stakeholders, particularly the political parties to “shine their eyes”, to monitor INEC, the returning officers, so that nothing untoward will happen to any party, any candidate returned to be unreturned again.
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