Youths Seek Meeting With Tinubu On INEC Chair Appointment

Less than 2 years to the 2027 wide elections, a youth-led conjugation has called for a historical municipality hallway gathering with President Bola Tinubu to sermon the assignment of the adjacent president of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The group, driven by Generation Z members, said appointing the INEC chairman, nationalist commissioners and nonmigratory electoral commissioners indispensable nary longer travel the accustomed governmental path.
At a property league successful Abuja yesterday, the nationalist coordinator, Joseph Agama, said the question emerged from wide younker distrust successful Nigeria’s electoral system.

“Many young radical are disengaged due to the fact that they don’t spot the process,” Agama said. “And they don’t spot the process due to the fact that they don’t spot the radical starring INEC.”

He argued that credibility begins with enactment that is autarkic of partisan influence.
According to him, the existent model — which allows the president to name the commission’s enactment — risks politicising the electoral body.

“If idiosyncratic makes those appointments with governmental interests, the strategy becomes casual to manipulate,” helium noted. “We privation a process that involves accepted rulers, spiritual leaders, civilian nine organisations and the Nigerian public.”

Agama said the Gen Z question is mobilising young Nigerians nationwide to request an INEC enactment that inspires assurance and guarantees free, fair, and credible elections.

Virtue Utuk, different radical member, besides spoke and urged President Tinubu to “lead differently” by embracing a caller inclusive governance model.

“We request a multi-stakeholder attack that includes civilian society, accepted and spiritual leaders, and the radical themselves.

“Our constitution gives the president the powerfulness of appointment, but ideology demands a tone of inclusion,” she said.

Utuk reminded the President that Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the existent INEC chairman, volition discontinue successful November 2025. He stressed that the prime of his successor would signifier nationalist assurance up of the adjacent polls.

“Mr President, we are the contiguous and the aboriginal of Nigeria’s democracy. We privation to spot the ballot. We privation a strategy worthy of our faith.

“Credible elections are the lifeblood of democracy.

“History volition justice the choices made today. Give america crushed to trust, and this procreation volition alteration apathy into action.”Utuk added.