{"id":175003,"date":"2025-08-19T08:50:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/inecs-challenges-in-conducting-fair-elections-under-tinubu"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:54:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:54:24","slug":"inecs-challenges-in-conducting-fair-elections-under-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inecs-challenges-in-conducting-fair-elections-under-tinubu","title":{"rendered":"INEC&#8217;s Challenges in Conducting Fair Elections Under Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A chieftain of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, Buba Galadima, has suggested that the independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, can\u2019t conduct free and fair election under the administration of President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>Galadima accused the current administration of abandoning governance for politicking just two years after it came into power.<\/p>\n<p>The NNPP chieftain stated this on Monday while fielding questions on Channels TV\u2019s Politics Today programme<\/p>\n<p>Galadima said that the INEC doesn\u2019t have the \u2018muscle and the guts\u2019 to call politicians to order because people in government had already started politicking before others.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cSee, 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCould 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\u2019t 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?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, if they can\u2019t 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?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou, in your own estimation, if they just can\u2019t say, look, mister man, stop, it is not yet time for politicking, it\u2019s time for governance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A chieftain of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, Buba Galadima, has suggested that the independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, can\u2019t conduct free and fair election under the administration of President Bola Tinubu. Galadima accused the current administration of abandoning governance for politicking just two years after it came into power. 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