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  • Updated: November 24, 2022

2023: Should Nigerians Be Worried That INEC, Tinubu Have Signed Compromise Agreement?

2023: Should Nigerians Be Worried That INEC, Tinubu Have Sig

In the Nigeria of our dreams, we need a country filled with untainted integrity and administrators that embody charisma and honesty. This dream will be helped by the country’s custodian of the electoral process, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Should we say that INEC is compromising on its mandate to give us “the most qualified” candidate?

There is no cooked food without fire. Nigeria cannot have a responsible government without an electoral body devoid of fear or favour.

With the escapades and controversies strapped behind the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, going into the 2023 presidential election, INEC’s integrity is arguable.

Is INEC Compromised?

INEC needs to maintain a smooth registration of candidates for election. But that of the presidential flag bearer of the ruling party, APC, is all but smooth going into the 2023 presidential election.

Bola Tinubu’s details on his INEC Form EC9 are, without a doubt, an anomaly that the electoral body should not have allowed.

On the form, the schools attended/ educational qualification with dates alongside the directive for all candidates to supply evidence of all academic qualifications is undesirably suspicious.

The years that the two-term Lagos governor graduated from primary and secondary schools are occupied by four zeros.

Remember that a presidential candidate’s essential national qualification n Nigeria is a secondary school certificate.

No two ways about it, the dates the presidential candidate of the ruling party attended primary and secondary schools are absent from the form. Connect the dots.

The possibilities 

If the fault is from the presidential candidate, the assumption that Bola Tinubu is parading a false identity is gaining strong momentum.

It is so because, in Nigeria, basic primary and secondary school education is important and cherished. For him not to have such a record is worrisome.

Moreover, how costly a presidential candidate could make such a mistake or be entangled in such a mix-up brings more questions than answers.

The post of the president is the most significant in the country, and every aspirant is expected not to leave any stone unturned.

Therefore, if the mix-up is from the presidential candidate, it brings his readiness to serve the country to serious doubts.

At the same time, if the error is from INEC, then Nigerians should be worried.

It is expected of the electoral body to be the meticulous organ of Nigeria’s democracy, going by the services it offers the country. 

How sure are we that INEC would not announce a wrong winner when the body struggles to take charge of minimal details such as form filling?

Do you think that’s impossible? There is every tendency that a student who failed a snap test will fail an exam.

One fault or too many

Shielding away from prejudice, it cannot be forgiven that Bola Tiubu had been thrown into a series of identity controversies since he signified interest in becoming the president. 

From his desperate showboating that he made the present president to his drug record being dug out, his health status is questionable, and now his basic individual records.

It is inconceivable for INEC to allow such a candidate to run if all of these allegations are close to being genuine.

On the disqualification of a presidential candidate, section 137(1A) of the Constitution provides that subject to the provisions of section 28 of this Constitution, he has voluntarily acquired the citizenship of a country other than Nigeria or, except in such cases as may be prescribed by the National Assembly, he has made a declaration of allegiance to such other country. 

The information available for public consumption implies that Bola Tinubu, who attended a university in the USA, was caught in the provision of this section.

His basic education was shrouded with tempting discrepancies with no adequate information. It is more worrying that INEC also complicates the matter because of it. 

The aftermath 

Recently, Former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, revealed that he went to the Chicago State University to enquire whether or not Bola Tinubu attended the institution where he confirmed he did.

But no one has come to reveal more details about Bola Tinubu’s secondary school education at the time of filling this report.

Nigerians will be disappointed if INEC compromises its mandate or is incapacitated to perform its constitutional roles because the baton is on the ruling party’s presidential candidate.
 
 

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