Buhari planned ahead to rig through INEC – Prof Nwabueze

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Constitutional law expert and elder statesman, Professor Ben Nwabueze SAN, has lamented the appointment of Muslims as the head of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Nwabueze stated that Buhari started preparing ground to manipulate the 2019 election when he replaced Amina Zakari with Mahmood Yakubu as INEC Chairman, who are both Northerners.

In a statement he issued yesterday, the elder statesman lamented that Buhari was contented in installing a Northerner as INEC Chairman.

The statement reads partly: “The Commission is constituted and designated as an agency, not of the Executive, but of the National Assembly, to which it is made accountable and must report its activities and the performance of its functions at least once a year, which implies that its members owe their tenure of office to the Assembly.

“By the express injunction of the Constitution, “no person or organ of state may interfere with the functioning of the Commission”. The members too are expressly enjoined to be impartial and to “exercise their powers and perform their functions without fear, favour or prejudice.

“After nearly four years in office, President Buhari has shown no consciousness or concern about the cruciality of the matter, not to talk of taking any action to address it. He is content to install as Chairman of INEC on 21 October, 2015, a fellow Muslim from Bauchi State in the far North, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, an outstanding historian and intellectual, replacing Amina Zakari, a lady and a Muslim northerner, whose appointment as acting chairman generated so much controversy.

“By these appointments, President Buhari is seen as preparing the ground for manipulating the 2019 election.

1 thought on “Buhari planned ahead to rig through INEC – Prof Nwabueze

  1. Thank you for your contributions to the national polity and for trying to set things straight. Keep on fighting. But, where is the national assembly on this issue? Members of the Independent National Election Committee (INEC) are supposed to report to the national assembly. Where are the members of the national assembly demanding their right as the “co-equal” branch of the government? Why are they not asking for this issue? We are not naive that some members of the national assembly are loyalists to the president especially those ones in his party and others that are members of his ethnic background…we know they’d not make any move in that direction. But, where are the others?

    Cash Ezimako

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