We Will Not Issue Certificates Of Return Under Duress, INEC Insists.
The Independent National Electoral Commission says it will not issue certificates of return to elected public officers under duress.The VerdictAccording to him, a situation whereby a Returning Officer is being threatened to declare a party’s candidate winner of an election under gunpoint or knifepoint amounts to illegality.
“You cannot point a gun to a returning officer’s head and say sign this, he signs it and then says I have been declared . That is illegality, that is not his act. Although he explained that it is only the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, that can only issue or withhold a Certificate of Return, he maintained that the court can order the Commission to do otherwise in a situation where a Returning Officer declares the result under duress.
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