INEC’s independence will be eroded when NCC decides electronic transmission of results – Olurode, ex-National Commissioner - Punch Newspapers

Prof Lai Olurode is a former National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission. In this interview with BOLA BAMIGBOLA, he says subjecting INEC’s powers on the transmission of election results electronically to the NCC will erode the independence of the electoral umpireWell, let’s start from the recruitment of candidates. How candidates are recruited and fielded for participation in the electoral process are very important.

So, after the process, you begin to see all kinds of names. You can hardly be a gentleman and go through the process, because you are going to face a lot of rigmarole and intimidating challenges that will make you ask yourself if it is worth dying for. So, going to the primaries is like all combinations of juju and other things that they use, including going to shrines and swearing.

They find it very difficult to get consensus; if it were to be a country where elite consensus is possible, we wouldn’t be going through the security challenges; and as you and I know, some people are behind these security challenges. I think the first thing we might do is a win-win situation, not like a zero-sum game. Every political party that fields candidates in election should have legislative representation to the extent of their victory in the electoral process.

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