Nationwide Chairman of the Inter-Social gathering Advisory Council, Yusuf Dantalle, has expressed optimism that the newly appointed chairman of the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee, INEC, Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan, SAN, would sanitize Nigeria’s electoral course of.
Dantalle acknowledged this on Friday, whereas responding to questions in an interview on ‘Prime Time’, a programme on Come up Tv.
In response to him, Prof Amupitan is effectively grounded in litigation which provides him an edge to achieve the nation’s electoral physique.
DAILY POST recollects that the Nationwide Council of State on Thursday authorised the nomination of Prof Amupitan from the North-Central as the brand new Chairman of INEC.
“Amupitan, going by his profile and pedigree is a professor of regulation and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, and you know the way electioneering in Nigeria is riddled with a sequence of litigations, court docket orders, counter court docket orders and so many issues.
“We imagine that having a person that’s effectively grounded in litigation may have rather a lot to do to sanitize the method.
“The instant previous administration of Prof Mahmoud Yakubu laid a stable basis with regards to technological innovation, however we require additionally that the Nationwide Meeting will go into regulation a number of the suggestions which were despatched to it in order that we are able to have a greater political ambiance,” he mentioned.
