“When Obasanjo was President, he never appointed a Yoruba man as INEC chairman. Jonathan never appointed an Ijaw man as INEC Chairman. Shagari too did not appoint a Hausa man like himself as Chairman of FEDECO). Rather...

“During the Ibrahim Babangida and Sani Abacha regimes, no Hausa/Fulani man was appointed as Chairman of the National Electoral Commission of Nigeria and General Abdulsalami Abubakar who established the current INEC did not also appoint his fellow Hausa man as chairman.

“How then can we have a President from the North and at the same time have INEC Chairman from the Hausa/Fulani Northern Nigeria?"

~Governor Ayodele Fayose