{"id":51604,"date":"2016-07-26T18:37:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T17:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=51604"},"modified":"2016-07-26T18:37:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T17:37:55","slug":"inec-messing-democracy-nigeria-fayose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/inec-messing-democracy-nigeria-fayose\/","title":{"rendered":"INEC messing up democracy in Nigeria &#8211; Fayose"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has said that the Independent\r\nNational Electoral Commission (INEC) was messing up democracy in\r\nNigeria with its handling of elections under the President Mohammadu\r\nBuhari led All Progressives Congress\u00a0 (APC) government.\r\n\r\nThe governor, who described the postponement of the Rivers State rerun\r\nelections\u00a0 and the alleged manipulation of the Imo North Senatorial\r\nelection as another dangerous signal of what to come in 2019, asked\r\nhow an INEC that could not conduct elections conclusively in just one\r\nState will be able to conduct elections in the entire country in 2019.\r\n\r\nIn a statement issued on Tuesday by the Special Assistant to the\r\ngovernor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the\r\ngovernor reiterated his fear that\u00a0 \"democracy in Nigeria is being\r\nthreatened by INEC and this should call for national and international\r\nreflection.\"\r\n\r\nHe said; \"Lovers of democracy in Nigeria and the entire world should\r\nbe worried that after conducting inconclusive elections in Rivers\r\nState in March this year, INEC postponed conclusion of the elections\r\ntwice.\r\n\r\n\"INEC had on June 20 after a meeting with relevant stakeholders, fixed\r\nJune 30 as new date for the conclusion of the poll.\r\n\r\n\"However, the electoral commission\u00a0 postponed the elections for the\r\nsecond time, claiming reports of violence, and one wonders how INEC\r\nwill be able to conduct elections in 36 States and the Federal Capital\r\nTerritory in 2019 if it has not been able to conclude elections in\r\nRivers State in four months!\"\r\n\r\nSpeaking further, the governor said\u00a0 President Buhari should be\r\nworried that since he assumed office, all elections conducted by INEC\r\nended inconclusive, adding it should be clear to the President and his\r\nparty men that absence of free, fair and credible electoral process is\r\na direct invitation to anarchy.\r\n\r\nHe said; \"Nigerians had thought issues of violence, ballot snatching\r\nand electoral fraud had been put behind them only for it to be brought\r\nback frontally by the Buhari's government.\r\n\r\n\"President Buhari should ask himself if he would have been elected\u00a0 if\r\nthe system then did not allow free and fair elections. INEC Chairman,\r\nProf\u00a0 Mahmood Yakubu should also be worried if there would have been\r\nan INEC to head if the 2015 elections had been inconclusive.\r\n\r\n\"I therefore appeal to the APC led federal government not to destroy\r\nthe legacy of near credible electoral process bequeathed on Nigeria by\r\nthe Peoples Democratic Party\u00a0 (PDP) government.\r\n\r\n\"The APC led federal government should allow for a system that will\r\nmake Nigerians to be able to elect their leaders freely.\"\r\n<\/pre>\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>Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has said that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was messing up democracy in Nigeria with its handling of elections under the President Mohammadu&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":51606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51604","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>INEC messing up democracy in Nigeria - Fayose - Pointblank News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/inec-messing-democracy-nigeria-fayose\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"INEC messing up democracy in Nigeria - Fayose - Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has said that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was messing up democracy in Nigeria with its handling of elections under the President Mohammadu&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/inec-messing-democracy-nigeria-fayose\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-07-26T17:37:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Ayo-Fayose.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/inec-messing-democracy-nigeria-fayose\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/inec-messing-democracy-nigeria-fayose\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"headline\":\"INEC messing up democracy in Nigeria &#8211; 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