The Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC), Wednesday warned political parties against
engaging in electioneering before the end of the year.
The Chairman of the electoral
body, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, gave the warning at a town hall meeting on “Health,
democracy and governance: Putting health as top political agenda of Nigeria,”
organised by the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA).
Yakube lamented that even though
INEC had rolled out a timetable for the 2019 general elections, politicians
were flouting it and mounting campaign billboards in different parts of the
country.
Yakubu said, “INEC is spending a
huge amount of money on technology due to a lack of trust among politicians,
the electorate and the commission. Such funds would have been channeled into
useful programmes like immunisation and other health projects.”
Represented by a National
Commissioner, Muhammed Lecky, the INEC boss said the commission was facing
challenges posed by the social media.
The Chairman, Partners for
Electoral Reforms and the co-convener of Say No Campaign Nigeria, Mr. Ezenwa
Nwagwu, observed that the “pauperization of citizens by hurtful government
policies, recent attempts at shutting down the corruption economy and the
inability of many to adjust to the absence of free money for unbridled
consumption and ostentation are a sure threat to the 2019 election.”
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