FCT election: Amupitan’s INEC failed woefully – Odinkalu

Former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Chidi Odinkalu, has criticised the behaviour of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, elections, describing the show of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, arsenic a failure.

Speaking connected Politics Today connected Channels Television connected Monday, Odinkalu said the committee nether the INEC Chairman, Joash Amupitan, failed to present a credible exercise.

Odinkalu argued that the shortcomings were not rooted successful ineligible constraints but successful what helium described arsenic a nonaccomplishment of volition and mediocre electoral administration.

He said it was troubling that specified lapses occurred successful what helium described arsenic a comparatively tiny predetermination successful the FCT, informing that the issues raised concerns astir the commission’s preparedness for aboriginal polls.

Odinkalu said: “INEC failed. Amupitan’s INEC failed woefully. And connected this evidence, cipher tin spot Josh to signifier credible elections successful 2027 bully stuff. There is thing other to it, okay?

“No, it’s not astir the law. It is astir the nonaccomplishment of will. It’s a nonaccomplishment of electoral administration. And no, I’m really not acold from coating a gloomy representation of elections successful Nigeria. I’m really saying that the representation is acold from gloomy. The predetermination administrators person got to bash their homework, and if they are not consenting to bash their homework, they should get the hellhole out.

“But one, electoral logistics were p...