INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu reacts To Court Cases After 2019 Elections

 
 The reflects of the just concluded Election in 2019 still beats the the air-wave.
This also followed the with-drawer of the President and his legal team from the Presidential election Tribunal last week.

The Chairman of the Independent and National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof. Mahmood Yakubu on Saturday August 3, revealed that the 2019 general elections led to over 1,600 court cases.

The electoral commission boss made the disclosure after receiving award of excellence from the Kaduna chapter of the National Institute of Public Relations (NIPR).  Prof. Mahmood Yakubu said the court cases centered on the rancour emanating from party primaries.

“We can have election that us free, but elections starts from party primaries, because they produce the candidates for the general education. However, before the last general elections, we had some of the most acrimonous party primaries in the history of elections in Nigeria, resulting to a large number of litigations.
“As we speak, INEC has been dragged to court 809 times over the conduct of primaries by political parties. If you add that to the post election litigations, we have so far been dragged to court over 1,600 times. So, we have been dragged to court of party primaries that, the suits challenging the conduct of the election.
“That not withstanding, elections can be free and fair, we are doing our best as an electoral comission, but INEC has its responsibilities clearly cut out, others have theirs, especially the political parties have theirs. But, working together, we will actually get to where we desire to be.” He said.