Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, disagrees with president Muhammmadu Buhari on how electoral
Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, disagrees with president Muhammmadu Buhari on how electoral offenders should be punished.
While the president threatened at a meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) caucus in Abuja, had said that ballot box snatchers should be ready to pay with their lives, the INEC chairman said electoral offenders would be dealt with according to the dictates of the provisions of the Electoral Act.
“The position of the commission is that all violators of the Electoral Act should be punished according to the provisions of the Electoral Act,” he said.
Yakubu while addressing stakeholders at the National Election Collation Centre, International Conference Centre (ICC), Abuja, also denied that a National Commissioner, Prof Okechukwu Ibeanu, and four other officials of the commission were summoned by the State Security Service (SSS) for questioning over the postponement of this year’s general elections by a week.
“No commissioner of INEC was picked by DSS. No commissioner’s house was raided. The commissioner they are talking about is now (Tuesday) in his office working at the commission’s headquarters.”
