Shehu Sani, senator representing
Kaduna central, has advised university lecturers to pull out from election
duty.
Reacting to a statement by Attahiru
Jega, former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC),
that some lecturers conspired politicians in Kano state during the general
election, Sani asked lecturers to withdraw from elections and “protect the
moral sanctity of the academia”.
“The politicians, through crooked
means, got alliances with lecturers in the university to compromise the system
and they perpetrated all sort of irregularities, which pave way for a faulty
process for the continued entrenchment of bad people in governance,”Jega had
said.
In a tweet on Friday, Sani said
in view of Jega’s revelation, lecturers should stop participating in election exercise to protect the moral
sanctity of the academia which should not be “smeared with political feaces.”
“In the light of the new
revelations, University lecturers should pull out from participating in the
conduct of national elections to save the reputation & protect the moral
sanctity of the academia.
“The ivory tower shouldn’t be
smeared with political feaces.”
The idea of using lecturers as
returning officers started under the tenure of Jega.
A former vice-chancellor of
Bayero University, Kano, ex-President Goodluck Jonathan appointed him INEC
chairman in 2010.
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