Hot SourceA Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Fidelis Oditah, has said the next Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, must be a person of integrity, independence and competence and not a political loyalist.
Oditah made this call on Wednesday when he featured in an interview on ‘Prime Time’, a programme on Arise Television.
He said that President Bola Tinubu owes Nigerians the duty to appoint the right person to lead the country’s electoral body.
“The INEC chairman needs to be someone who is impartial, independent, competent, accountable, professional and trustworthy. No one who witnessed the 2023 elections can have very good things to say about INEC.
The former Delta State governorship aspirant warned that Nigeria could not legislate integrity into existence, noting that the problem with elections in Nigeria is not the law but governance and character.
He stressed that Nigeria’s legal framework is adequate but undermined by the human element.
He criticised what he described as “dodgy jurisprudence” from the courts in post-election cases, particularly concerning the transmission of results through the INEC Result Viewing Portal, IREV
Next INEC chair must be non-partisan, not political loyalist – SAN tells Tinubu
