A chieftain of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), Buba Galadima, has stated that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) lacks the ‘muscle and the guts’ to call politicians to order because people in government have already started politicking before others.
Naija News reports that Galadima made this known on Monday while fielding questions on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme.
Galadima accused the current administration of abandoning governance for politicking just two years after it took office.
According to him, since the INEC cannot stop the current politicking, one cannot expect them to conduct a free and fair election under the administration of President Bola Tinubu.
He said: “See, look at it, when INEC was INEC, when politicians start to heat the polity, they come out and warn them that they have not allowed politicking.
“Could it be worse? What is happening, the politicking that is going on now just two years into the life of this administration. Look at the politicking that is going on when INEC doesn’t even have the muscle and the guts to call politicians to order because people in government are the ones that started. So how do you expect a free and fair election under these people?
“Well, if they can’t stop politicians from get-crashing or jumping the gun, how do you think they will have the liver to conduct a free and fair election?
“You, in your own estimation, if they just can’t say, look, mister man, stop, it is not yet time for politicking, it’s time for governance.
“That is why some of us are keeping quiet. We are waiting for the daytime, and when we start, the world will know that we are here.”
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