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By John Alechenu, Abuja
The Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, has said the contiguous task earlier the recently appointed National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Ojo Amupitan (SAN), is to rebuild nationalist spot successful the institution.
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National Secretary of the CUPP, Chief Peter Ameh, said this successful Abuja, connected Thursday.
He noted that the assignment of the seasoned world marks a pivotal infinitesimal successful Nigeria’s antiauthoritarian travel aft the decennary agelong tenure of erstwhile INEC boss, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu.
Ameh said: “Amupitan’s elevation carries a heavier mantle: the urgent imperative to rebuild nationalist spot successful INEC, an instauration whose credibility has been severely eroded by the shadows of past electoral malfeasances.
“His grounds positions him arsenic an apolitical fig of integrity. His nomination, present awaiting Senate confirmation, underscores a deliberate propulsion for determination equilibrium successful national appointments, a motion that resonates profoundly with a authorities often overshadowed successful Nigeria’s powerfulness corridors.
“For the radical of Kogi, this is much than a milestone; it is simply a clarion telephone for their typical to transmission this grant into tangible dividends.
“Amupitan’s scholarly extent successful areas similar firm governance, grounds law, and privatization equips him uniquely to navigate the labyrinth of electoral administration.
“However, the existent measurement of this pridefulness volition prevarication successful his quality to transcend parochial gains and code the nationalist malaise afflicting INEC — a assemblage whose sanction erstwhile evoked assurance but present stirs skepticism.
“This assignment unfolds against a grim tableau of nationalist distrust, meticulously sculpted by the controversies that marred the 2023 wide elections.
“What was billed arsenic Nigeria’s astir technologically precocious canvass — bolstered by the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, and the INEC Result Viewing Portal, IReV — devolved into a spectacle of disillusionment.
“Technical glitches plagued BVAS machines, rendering them inoperable successful cardinal polling units and disenfranchising millions, peculiarly successful municipality centers and absorption strongholds.
“The much-vaunted physics transmission of results faltered spectacularly, with less than 25% of polling portion outcomes uploaded to IReV successful real-time, fueling accusations of manipulation and opacity.
“Vote buying, over-voting, and effect falsification ran rampant, arsenic documented successful post-election analyses.”
Ameh reminded Prof. Amupitan that helium was taking implicit the committee astatine a clip nationalist assurance successful the instauration plummeted further than the specified 23 percent spot standing it had up of the 2023 elections.
He added that the complaint plummeted “further arsenic Bola Tinubu’s triumph was announced amid protests and ineligible challenges.
“For Nigerians, these events were not abstract failures but visceral betrayals — eroding religion successful the ballot arsenic the eventual arbiter of power.”
The CUPP charged the caller INEC brag to supply the benignant of enactment the instauration requires to reconstruct its credibility, integrity up of the 2027 wide elections.
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