Nigerians including a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and former President of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olisa Agbakoba have asked President Bola Tinubu to remove the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu.
This comes in the wake of EFCC Chairman, AbdulRasheed Bawa’s indefinite suspension as ordered by President Bola Tinubu.
The senior lawyer said, “Full congratulations go to President Tinubu for getting rid of Emefiele and Bawa and fuel subsidy and forex corruption. Endemic corruption has suffered a massive blow.
“Next is for the president to dismantle INEC. Everyone will agree that logistically, the 2023 elections are the worst in our history. I do not refer to the merits of the results of the elections. Many results are disputed and are in Tribunals. Both petitioners and respondents suffered at the hands of an incompetent INEC.
“As we await rulings from the courts massive reforms of the electoral framework ought to begin but this means that the INEC Chairman will have to leave office by resignation or removal, otherwise the reform task will be impeded.
“I add very quickly that the suggested reforms have nothing to do with the merits of election results at all. Both winners and losers of the elections were victims of the failure of INEC. Confidence in Nigeria’s democracy will be enhanced by a deep cleansing of INEC.”
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Twitter critic, Daniel Regha said: “Tinubu suspending the EFCC Chairman means nothing; Bawa was incompetent but let’s not pretend like Tinubu is suspending anyone to fight corruption or fix Nigeria. There’s ulterior motive. If Tinubu & this administration are serious, they should sack the INEC chairman (Yakubu).”
@antiyhello reacted: “These sackings by Tinubu are populist red meat.
“None of them have been a surprise to most people. He is both settling scores (Bawa) and appealing to the base (Meffy).
“The court has asked them to sack the IGP. Why hasn’t he? Let him sack INEC chairman let’s see something.”
“Give him enough prove to sack those men you mentioned not just to open your mouth because you can talk,” @ahmedlabaran reacted to @antiyhello’s tweet.
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@brotherbarth commented also: “There is a tiny few, very very tiny few decent politicians in Nigeria. I haven’t seen any in Tinubu’s government. If you know any say it. So please stop rejoicing because Satan told Jesus that he will give him the kingdom of earth. Satan can’t, because he doesn’t have it.”
In a similiar vein @iampurity6 wrote: “He is just bitting around the bush, if he does that,by sacking the INEC chair,i go know sey em mean business.”
@emperorkelvin2, who also commented, said: “He can’t dare to sack Inec chairman do u want him to see shege from the judiciary.”
