Prof. Itse Sagay, SAN, Chairman
of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, PACAC, has described
the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Mahmood
Yakubu as a “very weak man” who lacks initiative.
Sagay said this while lambasting
the INEC Chairman over plans to register more political parties, ahead of the
2023 general election.
He accused Yakubu of not being
proactive and collapses easily under problems.
Speaking with Independent, the
PACAC Chairman insisted that the INEC chairman only articulates problems
without any solutions while waiting for somebody else to do it for him.
According to Sagay: “Well, I
think INEC is to blame for all these. A body like INEC should be proactive.
When they found that the whole thing was getting out of hand with 91 parties,
they should have done something about it.
“I myself with my level of
education find it very difficult to identify my party logo out of the 73
political parties that contested in the presidential election. Now, INEC is
talking of 200 and they are just saying it without thinking of what to do about
it so that we don’t get to that level.
“Shouldn’t INEC now through the
government propose an amendment to the provisions of the constitution for
registration of political parties?
“That is what INEC should be
talking of. They should get their lawyers to draft a document and send it to
the Ministry of Justice so that the conditions for registration can be made
more drastic and at the end, we won’t have more than 10 political parties.
“For me, it’s all a sign of
INEC’s weakness which has been a serious problem particularly in these 2019
elections as against the one in 2015 when we had a chairman of INEC who knew
what he was doing.
“The current INEC chairman is a
very weak man and doesn’t have any initiative. He is not proactive and collapses
easily under problems and just articulates the problems without any solutions
while waiting for somebody else to do it for him.”
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