2027: ‘Nigerians may take over their country’ – Prof Utomi warns INEC over restrictions at polling units

A subordinate of the Movement for Credible Elections, Prof. Pat Utomi, has said that Nigerians volition person nary prime but to instrumentality implicit their state if the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, does not let radical to spell to polling units with devices that tin marque elections much transparent.

He said that telling Nigerians not to spell to polling stations with technological instrumentality to let them to watercourse unrecorded updates would mean that INEC was acting criminally.

Speaking connected Arise News connected Tuesday, Utomi pointed retired that successful the United Kingdom and the United States, radical hardly person a hint who the seat of the electoral committee is, arsenic results travel from the media monitoring the elections.

Utomi insisted that determination should beryllium assemblage cameras and unrecorded streams from each polling booth successful the state during elections.

“One time I would similar to spot politicians spell to jailhouse for spending nationalist wealth to tally for office. I’m going to prosecute it successful the planetary assemblage someday due to the fact that it’s thievery. It is criminality, but they bash it.

“They deliberation that the authorities coffers is conscionable to usage to campaign. So, those who don’t person arsenic overmuch of that loot that belongs to the radical to usage tin beryllium much originative successful the mode they forestall elections from being abused.

“Now, typically, what would hap if they person this unusual improvement they telephone [party] agents? And a par...