2027: INEC has no power to disqualify candidates – Oba Maduabuchi

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Oba Maduabuchi, has said that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has nary law powerfulness to disqualify candidates.

He said this pursuing the merchandise of the last database of candidates by the electoral umpire connected Friday, with respective candidates contesting assorted positions successful the 2027 wide elections missing from the list.

According to him, to recognize the powers of a assemblage similar INEC, 1 indispensable notation to the Electoral Act and the Constitution, wherever the powers of the electoral assemblage are intelligibly outlined.

He maintained that nary of the documents empowers INEC to disqualify a campaigner oregon gives it the close to find who tin contention an election, adding that the committee was ill-advised.

He told Arise TV: “The police, Army and INEC are statutory creations. They are created by law. That instrumentality defines the ambit of the powers exercisable by those bodies. So, to cognize what a peculiar assemblage has the capableness to do, you spell backmost to its establishing statute. For INEC, these are the Electoral Act and the Nigerian Constitution.

“These are the 2 documents you indispensable look at. There is nary proviso successful the 1999 Nigerian Constitution authorising INEC to disqualify anybody. There is none.

“There is...