Lecturers endorsing politicians can’t be returning officers – Atiku’s aide to INEC

Phrank Shaibu, the Senior Special Assistant connected Public Communication to the African Democratic Congress, ADC, statesmanlike candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on Monday, cautioned the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, against trusting lecturers who declared allegiance to politicians with delicate electoral responsibilities.

Shaibu said immoderate world who openly endorses a statesmanlike campaigner should not beryllium fixed INEC assignments specified arsenic returning officer, collation officers oregon officials entrusted with the collation, declaration and announcement of predetermination results.

More than 600 elder academics from nationalist universities successful Northern Nigeria had endorsed President Bola Tinubu’s second-term bid.

The endorsement came during a gathering convened by Tinubu’s Presidential Adviser, Ibrahim Masari, successful Kaduna.

The academics acknowledged that Tinubu inherited economical challenges and that immoderate reforms accrued hardship, but cited advancement successful education, agriculture, and infrastructure.

Meanwhile, the President of the Acade...