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Tinubu can never select anyone from South East for that dirty job. They knew what Humphrey Nwosu did in 1993 and wouldn't want a repeat of that. Senate attested to that by declining to immortalise him for conducting the freeist election in Nigeria.

quote author=Enemyofpeace post=134732384]Looking for a man to do their dirty job. The person will come from either south east or south south. Most probably south south[/quote]

Max24:
Then let's get someone from the moon to appoint then. Will that satisfy you? Who appoints in other democracies? Or is Nigeria's democracy different? As corrupt as Trump is, he gets to appoint Justices of the Supreme Court that aligns with his agenda and he brags about it. That's one of the oldest democracies.

Yes Nigeria democracy is different. If we have free and fair elections like what is obtainable in US and other countries practicing democracy, do you think one will care who appoints the INEC chairman.

The way you elect your leaders through ballot box snatching and altering of voting figures, is that the way US does theirs?

Anyone going to be appointed will start from day one to feel the heat...its wont be easy for that person to conduct the 2027 elections!

When it is convenient, as in when talking about the price of food items or the state of the economy, OBJ and GEJ governments will be referenced, but when these same governments are referenced for something that doesn't suit the agenda, like how the two presidents appointed INEC chairmen in their time, that is when some people gets to draw the line, and will now be asking stupid questions.
As much as I know this article is speculative, the president should choose anyone he wants and heaven will not fall!
Since serious national issues are now being reduced to agenda and interests, let's keep up with the hypocrisy.

Preyi:
News from where ?

from iragbiji

One of our boys is next. Una go cry tire when we announce one of Lagos past Commissioners as INEC Chairman

VnAhunnaPl:
He should appoint someone with integrity and not a yes man.

he is going to appoint someone who he can manipulate with money probably a Yoruba man.

VnAhunnaPl:
He should appoint someone with integrity and not a yes man.

he is going to appoint someone who he can manipulate with money possibly a Yoruba man.

INEC chairmanship position should be an electoral office. Including attorney general and all those important institutional heads.

Qualified candidates only should be vetted and approved to run for the posts.

They should run as independent candidates and not affiliated to political parties.

This will help in making these institutions truly independent.

How can they be independent when the president with political interests appointed them, and they of course know their fate depend on how pleased they make the president feel

Zionmdde:
Sharrap there. When zombies are talking you will know
If status quo must always be maintained then why do we have the legislative arm? Why are they being paid millions when we can all keep doing things the way they were done previously
Yes I supported Obi last elections, but unlike you, my support for the choice of the majority in a very free and fair election supercedes my support for any candidate. I will be happy the worse candidate who is the majority choice win free and fair than my candidate win via rigging

And for your info, there were no winners or losers among the masses in the last election. We are all facing the same economic reality. I just want that to sink into that foolish mentality you guys carry about

Now I understand your frustration.

fergie001:
Nope..... SS is No 1, then NC is No 2


Ordinarily Yes but he is looking at optics.... No President has picked a Chair from his Zone.

Lol!

That man in Aso Rock doesn’t care about optics if not he wouldn’t have done what he did in Rivers.

treesun:
…Intrigues, as dark forces plot to truncate credible polls in 2027

…Why President Tinubu should be concerned about the credibility of polls

…Nigeria’s history of encouraging electoral malfeasance by side-stepping the law

…How dependable institutional memory can deliver effective election management

…The challenge of rebuilding confidence in INEC



https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/03/inec-tinubu-shops-for-yakubus-replacement/

Yakubu will die next year. I saw it clearly.

Kindledlight:
Now I understand your frustration.

Nah you should rather put more efforts into understanding your foolishness

President Picking INEC Oga , Do you think He would Announce A Figure Against The President. Never ..

Another do as I say to be picked as eyeneck chairman

Jorussia:
So who should appoint the INEC Chairman?It should be you abi? OBJ,GEJ and PMB who appointed INEC chairmen as candidates are not human like PBAT?

You don't even get the point. He's trying to identify an anomaly in the system. A president who'd also eventually contest an election shouldn't be the one to appoint the electoral chairman. It was wrong for past presidents to have done so. The summary of everything is that there should be a change in who appoints the inec chairman and also Chief justice. There should be a commission saddled with this purpose so that they don't fall under undue influence of the president who appoints them

ejieddy:
Na you dey underestimate God o. His way isn't our way but whoever Tinubu chooses can end up doing what the people want which is credible elections, irrespective of what Tinubu wants

Let me write it plain

No inec chairman can do contrary to what tinubu tells him or his body language

If he becomes bornagain and he tries to do contrary, he will be removed, tinubu put him there not God

God intervention on nigeria can't be from inec

Get my analogy if you can




Ire o

Zionmdde:
Why should a president appoint an INEC chairman in a country that says they are practicing democracy and for.an election that he too will be a candidate?

Is that not the first madness that should be corrected by the legislators before any other thing?.

Real madness brother. This only happens when common sense has taken a flight.

Zionmdde:
Why should a president appoint an INEC chairman in a country that says they are practicing democracy and for.an election that he too will be a candidate?

Is that not the first madness that should be corrected by the legislators before any other thing?.

The 2014 confab makes provision on the appointment of inec chairman other than the siting president,nbut the confab report were thrown to the dusbins. What of Rtf Justice Muhammad Uwais political reforms committee that recommended radical changes to our electoral system but it was still thrown away. APC has taken our to pre-1945.

drstranged:
You don't even get the point. He's trying to identify an anomaly in the system. A president who'd also eventually contest an election shouldn't be the one to appoint the electoral chairman. It was wrong for past presidents to have done so. The summary of everything is that there should be a change in who appoints the inec chairman and also Chief justice. There should be a commission saddled with this purpose so that they don't fall under undue influence of the president who appoints them

who should appoint the members of the commission to appoint INEC Chairman?

I thought you know politics, Tinubu will never appoint a Yoruba man as INEC chairman

Penguin2:
The only way it will come from Southsouth is if they are planning to appoint Wike’s cousin who is the Edo REC as chairman of the commission.

If not, I can bet my left testicles that Tinubu will appoint a Yoruba man.

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Zionmdde:
Why should a president appoint an INEC chairman in a country that says they are practicing democracy and for.an election that he too will be a candidate?

Is that not the first madness that should be corrected by the legislators before any other thing?.

Do you think we have democracy in Nigeria? They deliberately did this. You appoint your yesman and game over. You expect a criminal like the drug baron to appoint someone that would hold a free n fair election? Think again.

fergie001:
The plot had long started.....

The replacement is coming from either the SS or NC.

A 'Christian' from the North Central may be.

However, if I was a betting man, I would put my money on a South Southerner.

The formidable trio of Mr Akpabio, Mr Oshiomole, and Mr Wike will not struggle to find a 'suitable' person from the South South

Only a naive person will believe 2027 election will not be rigged. Every election since 1999 was rigged. The next one is not going to be different. All major parties will rig.

DSS please don't come and arrest me o

DeLaRue:
A 'Christian' from the North Central may be.

However, if I was a betting man, I would put my money on a South Southerner.

The formidable trio of Mr Akpabio, Mr Oshiomole, and Mr Wike will not struggle to find a 'suitable' person from the South South

Only a naive person will believe 2027 election will not be rigged. Every election since 1999 was rigged. The next one is not going to be different. All major parties will rig.

DSS please don't come and arrest me o

Like I stated it's SS, for No 1.
That responsibility has been given to Ibori to find the person.

treesun:
…Intrigues, as dark forces plot to truncate credible polls in 2027

…Why President Tinubu should be concerned about the credibility of polls

…Nigeria’s history of encouraging electoral malfeasance by side-stepping the law

…How dependable institutional memory can deliver effective election management

…The challenge of rebuilding confidence in INEC



https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/03/inec-tinubu-shops-for-yakubus-replacement/

That role is a sensitive one. I wish he appoints an Igbo man or woman. He needs to start appeasing other tribes already

Zionmdde:
Nah it's your kind of head that something is obviously wrong with. People that cannot question a wrong status quo. So it's fair to appoint a referee in a match you will be playing?
People with your mentality are a very big problem. No quest for fairness, no quest for any positive change, let's just leave it the way it is mentality

Mediocres

somebody is telling you the constitution vested the power to appoint the election arbiter on the C-in-C to be screened by the legislature, your pained soul is finding it hard to accept, well then, put pressure on your legislatorss to amend the constitution to transfer the powers to your parish priest .

CrystalMax:
That role is a sensitive one. I wish he appoints from an Igbo man or woman. He needs to start appeasing other tribes already

Let's be realistic, in the current atmosphere of underground mutual distrust between Yoruba and Igbo politicians, a Yoruba president is highly unlikely to appoint a person from the East to head INEC when he is facing re-election.

Neither will an Igbo President appoint a Yoruba person in similar circumstances.

Things might change in the future, but as of today, that is the reality in Nigeria.

Zionmdde:
Nah you should rather put more efforts into understanding your foolishness

You are the one foolish here.

Kindledlight:
My father and my mother are the ones foolish here.

I had always known this na. A mango doesn't fall far from its tree

It just has to be a yoruba person, let's do this for the culture so please, northerners should not shout

Only gullible nigerians will believe that a notorious drug lord will conduct a free and fair election for them.

Zionmdde:
I had always known this na. A mango doesn't fall far from its tree

Keep on ranting.
Since you can’t hold a conversation without insulting father and mother shows you don’t have one or a bastard.