2027: Focus on free, fair elections – APC’s Okechukwu to INEC

Former Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria, VON, Osita Okechukwu, on Sunday urged the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Joash Amupitan, to absorption connected ensuring a free, fair, and credible election, stressing that credible elections stay the strongest antidote to intra-party impunity.

Okechukwu made the remark successful effect to the INEC Chairman’s caller telephone connected governmental parties to adhere strictly to the principles of interior ideology during a courtesy sojourn to erstwhile Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, successful Minna, Niger State.

In a connection helium signed, the foundational subordinate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, said the INEC Chairman has consistently emphasised the contented of interior democracy, having made akin remarks successful Akwa Ibom successful March 2026 and again successful Abuja successful June 2026.

He said: “Whereas 1 agrees with the Chairman that strict observance of interior ideology wrong governmental parties is of paramount importance; the top inducement for governmental parties to uphold interior ideology is the accordant behaviour of free, fair, and transparent elections by INEC.”

He argued that governmental scientists person agelong maintained that governmental parties are much apt to respect antiauthoritarian principles and fashionable volition erstwhile electoral processes are credible and transparent.

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