{"id":76628,"date":"2020-10-29T00:29:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T23:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=76628"},"modified":"2020-10-29T00:29:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T23:29:36","slug":"pdp-urges-yakubu-to-see-reappointment-as-opportunity-for-more-credible-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-urges-yakubu-to-see-reappointment-as-opportunity-for-more-credible-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP urges Yakubu to see reappointment as opportunity for more credible elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m45906\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised the Chairman of<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal  \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu,<br \/>\nto see his reappointment as an opportunity to improve on the nation\u2019s<br \/>\nelectoral processes.<\/p>\n<p>The party gave the advice in a statement issued by its National<br \/>\nPublicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ologbondiyan said the reappointment entrusted on Yakubu the fate, hope,<br \/>\nand future of some 200 million Nigerians as well as that of generations<br \/>\nyet unborn.<\/p>\n<p>He said PDP, in the light of the five-year extension, were of the hope<br \/>\nthat miscarriages of justice in the country\u2019s electoral process would<br \/>\nhave no place in the new order.<\/p>\n<p>Ologbondiyan stated that with Yakubu\u2019s reappointment, he had been given<br \/>\nample time and opportunity to redeem the image of INEC as well as<br \/>\npreparation for more credible, free, and fair elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least, with this reappointment whatever happens in our future<br \/>\nelections cannot be ascribed to inexperience and lack of adequate<br \/>\npreparedness on the side of INEC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe consider this reappointment by President Muhammadu Buhari as an<br \/>\nimpetus to demonstrate a readiness for a free, fair and credible<br \/>\nelection, which Mr President had always promised to bequeath at the end<br \/>\nof his second and final term in office in 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ologbondiyan urged the INEC Chairman to spend about two years before the<br \/>\nnext general election to rejig the situation at the commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYakubu should work out appropriate electoral policies and guidelines<br \/>\nand push for an amendment of the Electoral Act, in conjunction with the<br \/>\nNational Assembly, to give our nation a credible electoral process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe must be mindful of the aphorism that to whom much is given, much<br \/>\nmore is expected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis reappointment, therefore, comes with a lot of expectations by<br \/>\nNigerians.\u201d<br \/>\nOlogbondiyan also advised Yakubu to quickly take a painstaking look into<br \/>\nissues that aid manipulations, rigging, violence, and inconclusive<br \/>\nelections which marred most of the previous elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYakubu should note that the future, stability, and corporate existence<br \/>\nof our nation have been entrusted in his hands as a credible election is<br \/>\nthe bedrock of any democratic society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He urged the National Assembly, particularly the Senate, to focus on<br \/>\nthose pertinent issues in the course of screening Yakubu to ensure that<br \/>\nthe failures of the past were not given accommodation in the new era.<br \/>\n(NAN)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/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>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, to see his reappointment as an opportunity to improve on the nation\u2019s&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":58941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76628","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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