{"id":122819,"date":"2025-10-08T06:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=122819"},"modified":"2025-10-08T06:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:06:10","slug":"cupp-chides-outgoing-inec-boss-over-disastrous-tenure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/cupp-chides-outgoing-inec-boss-over-disastrous-tenure\/","title":{"rendered":"CUPP Chides Outgoing INEC Boss Over Disastrous Tenure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Lizzy Chirkpi<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The National Secretary of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) ,Chief\u00a0 Peter\u00a0 Ameh has slammed Mahmoud Yakubu, the outgoing Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement titled \u201cMahmoud Yakubu\u2019s Disastrous Tenure: A Legacy of Electoral Ruin and Democratic Decay,\u201d Ameh didn\u2019t mince words describing Yakubu\u2019s years in office as \u201ca dark chapter in Nigeria\u2019s democratic history.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Ameh, what Nigerians expected from Yakubu\u2019s leadership was transparency, credibility, and fairness in elections, but what they got instead was corruption, incompetence, and arrogance. \u201cRather than protect democracy,\u201d Ameh wrote, \u201cYakubu\u2019s tenure betrayed the Nigerian people and pushed the nation into a crisis of electoral legitimacy.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He recalled how the 2023 General Elections, which gulped more than \u20a6350 billion in funding, ended up as \u201ca chaotic spectacle of irregularities and confusion.\u201d Polling stations were poorly managed, the promised electronic transmission of results failed woefully, and citizens who stood for hours to vote left feeling cheated and powerless.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cDespite the astronomical budget, what Nigerians saw was confusion and betrayal,\u201d Ameh lamented. \u201cResults were delayed, systems failed, and Yakubu couldn\u2019t even offer a credible explanation. It was shameful.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beyond the election chaos, Ameh accused the INEC boss of ruining the morale of staff within the commission. He said Yakubu treated workers \u201clike disposable commodities,\u201d denying them promotions, welfare, and basic respect. The internal rot, he added, mirrored the external collapse of the commission\u2019s credibility.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cUnder Yakubu, INEC became a toxic place where dissent was silenced and loyalty to the chairman mattered more than competence,\u201d Ameh wrote. \u201cThat arrogance destroyed the spirit of service and fairness that INEC was meant to represent.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ameh also pointed to a deeper and more dangerous problem \u2014 the deliberate weakening of Nigeria\u2019s multi-party democracy. He accused Yakubu of sponsoring the insertion of Section 225A into the Electoral Act, which gives INEC power to deregister political parties.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThat clause is a dagger aimed straight at democracy,\u201d Ameh warned. \u201cIt violates Section 40 of the Constitution, which guarantees freedom of association. Yakubu used INEC to silence opposition and shrink political space.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Ameh, the consequences of these failures have been devastating. He said public faith in elections has dropped to its lowest level since 1999, with many Nigerians now seeing democracy as an empty ritual rather than a true reflection of the people\u2019s will.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe 2023 elections were a symbol of betrayal,\u201d he wrote sadly. \u201cMillions of Nigerians turned out in hope, but were met with a system that seemed built to frustrate them. Yakubu\u2019s INEC replaced hope with despair.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ameh described the \u20a6350 billion spent on the elections as a \u201cnational scandal,\u201d saying it was \u201cdrawn from the sweat and taxes of ordinary Nigerians, only to be wasted on a process that produced neither justice nor credibility.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHis refusal to explain how that money was spent,\u201d Ameh continued, \u201cis the final insult to a nation already wounded.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As he rounded off his statement, Ameh said Yakubu\u2019s exit from INEC should mark the beginning of rebuilding, but warned that the damage done to Nigeria\u2019s democracy will take years to heal.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHe leaves behind a fractured institution and a wounded democracy.\u00a0 \u201cRebuilding trust will take courage, honesty, and real leadership. Nigeria deserves an electoral body that protects the people\u2019s will, not one that manipulates it,\u201d Ameh concluded.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chief Peter Ojonugwa Ameh is a political economist, policy strategist, and National Secretary of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP).<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lizzy Chirkpi The National Secretary of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) ,Chief\u00a0 Peter\u00a0 Ameh has slammed Mahmoud Yakubu, the outgoing Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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