Chukwudi Ezeobika, a human rights advocate and attorney, has blasted the Independent National Electoral Commission for failing to exercise due diligence and properly investigate the data and credentials presented to it by candidates for public office.
According to the activist, the election umpire’s actions or inactivity has exposed the nation to humiliation in front of the international community, raising questions about the legitimacy of the President’s credentials.
These were in a statement that the attorney signed and provided to newsmen in Lokoja on Monday.
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Speaking against the backdrop of the Chicago State University certificate controversy, he noted that the electoral umpire has brought so much embarrassment to the entire country because it failed to do the needful.
This, he said is an “Issue to be worried about as it raises serious questions on the integrity, capacity and true independence of the Commission as currently constituted.”
He said that having received huge budgets (which amount to billions of Nigerian naira) both from the Nigerian government and international donors, the INEC Chairman, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood, should have done better to conduct a free, fair and credible election.
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