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Mahmoud Yakubu Should Have Stepped Down Over Conduct Of 2023 Election – Prof. Adibe
Professor Jideofor Adibe has said bad things about Mahmood Yakubu, who is the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
He said that Mahmood should have quit after the 2023 polls because he was getting a lot of bad press.
At the beginning of the year, Nigerians went to the polls to choose their president, leaders, and national and state politicians. But many people, especially in other countries, were very critical of the process, especially the presidential race.
Adibe says the complaints were enough reason for the head of INEC to step down.
“I think I have this several times even in 2019. INEC cannot deliver anything now because it has a legitimacy crisis,” the professor of political science said on Channels Television’s end-of-year show, “2023: Year Of Transition”.
“The first thing that should have been done is for Professor Mahmood to go. In climes where honour means anything, even if you feel you have done your best, to the extent that international and local observers have condemned and heavily criticised the conduct of the election, the best thing you should do is to step aside. His life does not need to depend on it. You step aside for the sake of the integrity of that institution. And for as long as it remains, I don’t think anybody will think they can get anything from INEC.”
