A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has
called for the unbundling of the Independent National Electoral Commission,
INEC.
He said INEC must be urgently unbundled to deliver credible
elections.
He made the remark in reaction to the tribunal judgment that
upheld President Bola Tinubu’s victory.
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal had dismissed
the petitions of presidential candidates, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples
Democratic Party, and Peter Obi of the Labour Party, challenging Tinubu’s
victory.
However, Adegboruwa said the tribunal’s ruling called for a
sober reflection, adding that the petitions could have been decided purely on
points of law and within a few days of the election.
A statement on his Facebook page reads partly: “There can be
no real victory in the resolution of the legal issues by the court when the
fabric of our democratic engagements seem to have been hijacked and compromised.
“Part of the lesson in this process is for us to go back and
review the electoral process and the litigations following it. INEC, as it is
presently constituted, cannot birth any credible election in Nigeria.
“In all, maybe there was too much expectation that the
status quo would be upturned, whereas many of the principles of law canvased
had long been settled by the apex court.
“While encouraging all parties to continue in towing the
paths already defined by law for the ventilation of grievances, we owe Nigeria
an urgent duty to dismantle INEC, urgently.”
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