Editorial - Tinubu should embrace universal best practices in making these appointments or else, he risks being seen as a leader mired in the morass of deception...
Tinubu should embrace universal best practices in making these appointments or else, he risks being seen as a leader mired in the morass of deception...
Yet, the partisan disposition of the Senate saw the nominees sworn in immediately, in spite of the mentioned violations of the Constitution and the Electoral Act that this act presents, and amidst the protests and petitions of civil society organisations and others against the appointment of these RECs. At issue now is the integrity of INEC and Nigeria's electoral process.
Equally, in its protests against the appointments, the Civil Society Groups Working on Governance and Elections pointed out that the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, in section 156, clearly prohibits the appointment of any member of a political party as a member of INEC. Hence, non-partisanship is a mandatory requirement in the appointment of RECs.
A Senate that rejected Raheem's nomination on account of his being partisan but approved Tinubu's nominees with the same debility is an unreliable parliament. Nigeria has had enough of flawed elections since 1999. All right-thinking and objective-minded folks should rise against this obvious shrivel, which imperils the country's democracy.
However, PREMIUM TIMES does not believe that legislators, many of whom wangled their way into the parliament, can be entrusted with such a sensitive national assignment. Jega's advocacy for divesting the president of powers to appoint members of the electoral umpire perhaps stems from his personal experience and his membership of the Justice Mohammed Uwais Committee on Electoral Reforms that came in the wake of the 2007 electoral debacle, which made similar recommendations.
Amid this subterfuge and subversion of national interest by the so-called democrats, it is worthy of note that"Elections are the essential roots of democracy," as an erstwhile Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, reminded all. To consolidate it, he stressed that"the electoral process be under-girded by two fundamental standards: credibility and integrity.
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