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The immediate past Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmoud Yakubu, has acknowledged that the Commission, under his leadership from 2015 to 2025, was plagued by persistent crises that undermined the credibility of Nigeria’s electoral process, despite several reforms and innovations introduced during his tenure.
Yakubu made this disclosure in INEC’s latest publication titled Election Management in Nigeria: 2015–2025.
He presented a sobering account of recurring challenges—including pre-election litigations, conflicting court judgments, and violent attacks on INEC offices and personnel—which consistently disrupted the smooth conduct of elections.
According to him, the Commission was entangled in thousands of legal cases and frequently received contradictory rulings from courts of equal jurisdiction, leading to legal confusion and interference with election preparations.
The former INEC Chairman also pointed to issues such as vote buying, recurring logistical failures that prompted nationwide postponements, and deliberate attacks on election staff as some of the most destabilising challenges faced by the Commission.
“The 2015–2025 decade was not without its challenges. Conflicting court orders, violence targeted at our staff and facilities, the scourge of vote trading, and persistent logistics bottlenecks continued to test the credibility and smooth conduct of elections,” said Yakubu.
He further noted that, beyond human and legal obstacles, technical difficulties also affected INEC’s operations, explaining that equipment malfunctions and network failures occasionally disrupted accreditation and delayed result transmission, thereby fuelling public scepticism about the system’s reliability.
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