Solomon Dalung, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has criticized the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for its handling of elections in Nigeria in a recent interview with Lagos Reporters, Dalung, who served as Minister of Sports during former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, alleged that both INEC and the Supreme Court have changed the true meaning of elections in the country.
Dalung further advised politicians seeking to run for elective positions to lobby the electoral umpire in order to secure their victory.
“The Supreme Court has reconfigured democracy in Nigeria with that landmark judgment, election in Nigeria now means INEC,” Dalung said.
“If you want to contest election in Nigeria, you have to lobby INEC; you have to go to INEC, according to the Supreme Court.
“That even if INEC makes bye-laws to regulate elections, they are at will to scrap it even by midnight and declare anybody [as the winner] and you cannot hold them accountable.
“I think politicians should understand that there is now a radical departure from the meaning of elections in Nigeria,” he added
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