{"id":179010,"date":"2025-09-16T08:35:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/inecs-inability-to-regulate-political-players"},"modified":"2025-09-16T09:39:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T08:39:36","slug":"inecs-inability-to-regulate-political-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inecs-inability-to-regulate-political-players","title":{"rendered":"INEC&#8217;s Inability to Regulate Political Players"},"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 stated why the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, cannot call political players to order.<\/p>\n<p>Galadima disclosed this on Monday when he featured on \u2018Prime Time\u2019, a programme on Arise Television.<\/p>\n<p>He lamented that even though INEC has the ability to call political players to order, it cannot because those who pay the piper dictate the tune.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the last six months, I complained severally about INEC\u2019s inability to call political players to order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI painfully realised that they are not in a position to call them to order because those who pay the piper dictate the tune.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis issue of campaigning before being allowed by INEC was started by the government of the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd this suggests that INEC cannot be an umpire in the political environment we have today,\u201d he lamented.<\/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 stated why the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, cannot call political players to order. Galadima disclosed this on Monday when he featured on \u2018Prime Time\u2019, a programme on Arise Television. 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