Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has vowed not to share his
role as returning officer of the presidential elections with anyone.
Yakubu said this on Thursday
during an interactive meeting with Catholic Bishops in Abuja.
He was speaking in reaction to
comments still trailing the appointment of Amina Zakari who is reportedly
related to President Muhammadu Buhari as the head of the committee on collation
centre.
Zakari’s appointment was
misconstrued in some quarters to mean she would be involved in the collation
process.
Yakubu, however, said he remains
the only returning officer who would announce results for the presidential
election.
“The chairman of INEC is the
chief returning officer for the presidential election and I am not going to
share that responsibility with anyone,” he said.
He also urged Nigerians to always
draw the attention of the commission to any infraction in the national voter
register for rectification
Yakubu said: “We have been doing
so consistently. After the last one, we received only a few comments from the
states, I think 48,000 out of 84 million registered voters.
“Part of the difficulty is that
we are very careful if someone says that one person is dead, because of the
experience the commission had in 2015.
“We received a letter from one
particular political party that a candidate was dead and they submitted a death
certificate obtained from a government hospital. They also went to court, swore
to an affidavit and his family also attested to the fact that the candidate was
dead. They filed all these documents at the commission. A week later, the
supposedly dead candidate turned up and said he was alive.”
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