- He stated that INEC can’t be trusted to conduct credible polls if it can’t world the big stick and clamp down on politicians violating electoral laws.
A chieftain of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, Buba Galadima, says the the independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has become the proverbial toothless dog that can only bark but cannot bite.
He stated the commission cannot longer enforce critical electoral law because it power as been considerably whittled down by the current administration, adding that the electoral umpire can’t conduct free and fair election under President Bola Tinubu.
Galadima accused the current administration of abandoning governance for electioneering and politicking just two years after it came into power.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics on Monday, the NNPP chieftain said INEC doesn’t have the ‘muscle and the guts’ to rein in politicians because people in government had already started politicking before others.
He said: “See, look at it, when INEC was INEC, when politicians start to heat the polity, they come out and warn them that they have not allowed politicking.
“Could it be worse? What is happening, the politicking that is going on now just two years into the life of this administration. Look at the politicking that is going on when INEC doesn’t even have the muscle and the guts to call politicians to order because people in government are the ones that started. So how do you expect a free and fair election under these people?”
He stated that INEC can’t be trusted to conduct credible polls if it can’t world the big stick and clamp down on politicians violating electoral laws.
“Well, if they can’t stop politicians from get-crashing or jumping the gun, how do you think they will have the liver to conduct a free and fair election?
“You, in your own estimation, if they just can’t say, look, mister man, stop, it is not yet time for politicking, it’s time for governance.
“That is why some of us are keeping quiet. We are waiting for the daytime, and when we start, the world will know that we are here.”
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