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How Politicians nominated INEC Officials for Positions in order To rig 2023 election – Attahiru Jega Reveals

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Newslens NG reports that the Former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (NEC), Attahiru Jega, has called out some officials within the electoral commission of compromising the last general election through illegal deals.

According to Jega, the INEC officials who compromised the outcome of the election were able to carry out the illegal deal because they were nominated for the positions based on political bargains.

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He this when he spoke as a guest lecturer at the two-day retreat organised for senators in Akwa Ibom.

Mr Jega spoke on the topic “Electoral Reform and Democratic Consolidation in Nigeria: Review of 2022 Electoral Act (areas for further legislative actions).”

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“We have seen, in 2023 elections, the damaging effect of how people in the corridors of power get their client/partisan nominees appointed, without being thoroughly screened, and then they are influenced to compromise the integrity of elections”.

 

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