The disclosure by the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission , Professor Mahmood Yakubu that the commission is currently involved in over 1,600 court cases arising from the February/March 2019 general elections has attracted scathing remarks from some Nigerians.
Yakubu’s disclosure has, however, attracted comments from a former deputy national chairman of Peoples Democratic Party , Chief Olabode George and a former Minister of Works, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe, who recently crossed over from PDP to All Progressives Congress .
George’s observation about election apathy in Nigeria, which he blamed on the incapability of the current INEC to handle election processes tallies with the position of a university don, Professor Lai Olurode, who lamented that the current electoral statistics in Nigeria indicates the existence of political haemorrhage.
To him, the commission did its best with the new Electoral Act, which President Muhammadu Buhari refused to sign into law. The PDP stalwart said his position is not because PDP is no longer in power as some people have accused, saying, “I am not saying my suggestions must be accepted by fiat, but the reality is Nigeria has not been working and there is no guarantee this current system will work.”
This is a clear public acceptance of rots in the management of democracy regulators. The numbers speak for itself. In its current form INEC is unfit for purpose. This is not a criticism but feedback.
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