INEC not above the law, must operate within limits — Opatola

Legal analyst, Victor Opatola has issued a beardown reminder that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, indispensable run strictly arsenic an administrative assemblage wrong its law limits.

He argued that INEC’s relation is intelligibly defined; to organise, supervise, and negociate elections and should not widen beyond what the instrumentality prescribes.

According to him, the spot of Nigeria’s ideology depends connected institutions staying wrong their ineligible boundaries and respecting owed process astatine each times.

“INEC indispensable recognize that it is an administrative body,” Opatola said, stressing that compliance with law provisions is non-negotiable.

His connection has added caller propulsion to ongoing nationalist debates connected electoral reform, organization accountability, and the credibility of Nigeria’s antiauthoritarian process.

INEC not supra the law, indispensable run wrong limits — Opatola