The Independent National Electoral Commission has said that it will not support any candidate or political party in the forthcoming elections, as it is only interested in the electoral process.

The INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, said this when he addressed Supervisory Presiding Officers for the 2023 general election in Abuja, according to a video on the Commission’s Twitter handle on Sunday.

Yakubu also urged election officers on neutrality.

He advised them not to see their job as a service to INEC but to the country as a whole in which they are equal stakeholders.

“INEC is not a political party. INEC has no candidate in the election. Our commitment is to the process and we will make sure that the process is what we say it should be so that the choice made by Nigerians will determine the outcome of the process,” he said.


Yakubu described the work of the SPOs as critical to the success of the 2023 general election, urging them to uphold the integrity of the process.

“You are the people who supervise those who will work at the most important level, the Polling Unit level. That is the only place where voting takes place.
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“The collation officers at the polling units level are collating results from the PUs. When collation officers at the PU go to the local government level, they are collating results from the PUs.

“When it goes to the state level they are collating results from the PUs and when they come to Abuja, where we collate the presidential result it would have passed through all these processes.

“So, by the time the results come to Abuja, Nigerians would have known the outcome of the election,” he said.

Yakubu added, “Our responsibility is simply to collate.”

He said the training was going on simultaneously in all states and the Federal Capital Territory.

The INEC boss said the training was a further reassurance to Nigerians of the Commission’s readiness to conduct election on February 25 and March 11.

source: https://punchng.com/inec-has-no-candidate-in-elections-yakubu/

Let's hope so, because people are banking on you to give us a free and fair election so that people can vote for Peter Obi and see him declared winner.

Obi is coming.......

Na so e suppose be naw

You sure say corn no dey your pocket?

Peter Obi 4 President

If INEC can truly give us a free and fair elections, then maybe, just maybe, Nigerians may forgive Buhari for the suffering it imposed on us

But the body language of INEC is proving otherwise

Remember their tweet from their official handle of a couple of days ago

How about the tweet made some days ago?

Before nko

Lol K, believe at your own peril..

Nothing isn't independent.

Atiku is coming

Is this even supposed to be an announcement?!!

The neutrality of a nation's electoral body should never even come into dispute or suspicion!

Better,because all we want is free and fair election so that the best candidate can win

This forthcoming election seams just like the 1993 election.
Nigerians wont forget it in a hurry

For a better Nigeria please, vote Peter obi next week Saturday.

GYes

But our lecturers and vice chancellors will collect money as returning officers

BATstards

And how can the same INEC deny partisanship when it was liking a tweet antagonising of Peter Obi? You better conduct a credible free and fair elections this year.

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Doing Same Thing Repeatedly and Expecting a Different Result is Insanity.
Let's try something different this time around.

A new Nigeria is POssible.

Useless commission.
U guys claim not partisan but liked a tweet against obi.

God pass una

Every human has an interest. We are just demanding a level playing field for all candidate and a safe environment for voters to vote without fear and intimidation.

If u like, support Buhari for 3rd term, just give Nigerians a chance to vote their choice

Why na aboki be INEC chairman...?

Igbos to the rescue..

you have no candidate but preferred candidate

INEC, please continue to do your work. Remember you have names to protect. Politicians will say anything to discredit the system. I don't envy you guys. Everybody is watching your moves. f you wink at a candidate then you will see it in the press. Remember the days of Ovie-Whiskey!!! Just satisfy your conscience. Nigerian politics is dirty because access to social media enables youth to abuse their fathers. Yet the same youths will not perform miracles when given opportunities.

Speak that Bala bu bu LA ba to yourself and your lil brain dummy ass family members.

INEC" has maybe a thousand officials who think otherwise on their payroll, and you my friend is just one.

INEC Chairman, Mahmood, must have thought he was talking to Beaty. Beaty is the legendary young lady ready to acquiesce to any talk from any man.

tuoyoojo:
If INEC can truly give us a free and fair elections, then maybe, just maybe, Nigerians may forgive Buhari for the suffering it imposed on us

But the body language of INEC is proving otherwise

Remember their tweet from their official handle of a couple of days ago

And you think INEC Chairman or one of the REC is the one handling their Twitter handle😦

Lori iro

In the days of yore, INEC Chairmen were appointed from Nigerian groups seen not to be having their presidential candidates in any election.