Election Postponement: Ex-INEC Chief Wants PDP APC, Others Compensated

Former INEC Commissioner, Prof. Ladi Olubode Calls For Compensation Of Political parties Source: The Punch
Former INEC Commissioner, Prof. Ladi Olubode Calls For Compensation Of Political parties
Source: The Punch

Former National Commissioner of INEC Professor Ladi Olubode says the postponement of the 2019 elections is a colossal embarrassment to Nigeria.

Expressing his disappointment over the commission’s late postponement of the presidential and national assembly polls from February 16 to Mach 23, Olubode called for compensation of political parties.

“I think this time around, unlike what happened in 2015, the elections management body should be thinking of compensating political parties that are contestants so that they will be in the same position to compete very well with parties that have the support of state and Federal governments,” he told NAN.

“There is absolute need to reimburse the parties for the losses they have incurred as a result of this postponement.

“I tell you, it is much easier for people who are in power to use government resources to defray a course in the office, but what about parties who are not in power, how will they get to be compensated?

“Of course, they would be expected deploy their people to the fields as poll observers and agents in the electoral process. All of these they have to repeat in the next electoral process.”

He wondered why INEC did not announce it a week or two weeks before the election.

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