INEC doesn’t have the ‘muscle and the guts’ to call politicians to order
Buba Galadima, a chieftain of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), has cast doubt on the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) ability to conduct free and fair elections under President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
Speaking on Channels TV’s Politics Today programme, Galadima criticised the Tinubu government for prioritising politicking over governance just two years into its tenure. He warned that INEC “doesn’t have the ‘muscle and the guts’ to call politicians to order because people in government are the ones that started.”
Galadima lamented the erosion of INEC’s authority: “See, 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… So how do you expect a free and fair election under these people?”
He concluded with a telling metaphor, stating: “That 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.”