Group Calls For Resignation Of INEC Boss

The chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) have been asked to tender their resignation by an accredited observer over the inconclusive gubernatorial poll in Kogi state.


This call was made by the Coalition of Civil Society Group . The coalition said the (AGF and INEC boss) stance on the election was capable of discrediting the election.
According to the coordinator, Abubakar Suleman, at a press conference on Tuesday, December 1 in Abuja, stated that the group has lost confidence in the leadership of the duo, This Day reports.
He stressed that the action in a sharp contrast with 1999 constitution as amended and the Electoral Act stating that the group would not turn a blind eye and allow the nation’s democracy to suffer nor neither will it be left in the hands of electoral umpire that cannot exert its independence and sanctity of the electoral process.
Suleman said: “The clear implication of this action of the AGF and INEC chairman is that APC would be fielding two different governorship candidates in the on-going Kogi State election which means that INEC would be transferring votes cast for late Prince Abubakar Audu to another candidate, a scenario that have no place in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
The group coordinator wondered why INEC which has enough technical expertise and a working legal unit failed to advise the chairman on the appropriate action to take in the constitutional logjam it found itself in and had to wait for directive from the AGF, a third party who the group accused of being a sympathizer of the APC.
He added that: “A supposedly independent electoral umpire could allow itself succumb to the antics of the All Progressives Congress (APC) by following the unlawful directive of an obviously partisan AGF to substitute a candidate in the middle of the ballot process.
 “It is on record that the two legal documents guiding INEC in the conduct of elections are the constitution and the electoral act which have provisions for electoral exigencies as well as empower the electoral body to take responsibility for any of its action or inaction without undue interference from any quarters whatsoever.

“We are therefore at a loss as to which sections of these two relevant laws INEC and AGF relied on in arriving at their bias decision to substitute in an on-going election even after the timelines for such has elapsed under all the rules.” 

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