My 2023 General Election Comments At Ikot Ipene, ‘Misrepresented’ – Attahiru Jega
Professor Attahiru Jega , who is the immediate past Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has clarified that he never said the 2023 general election was compromised.
Recall that media reports had claimed that Jega said this during the two-day retreat organized by the Senate in Ikot Ipene, Akwa Ibom State, last week.
The former INEC Chairman, a professor of political science at Bayero University, Kano, had delivered a keynote speech titled, ‘Electoral Reform and Democratic Consolidation in Nigeria: Review of 2022 Electoral Act (areas for further legislative actions), during which he was quoted to have said, ‘We have seen in 2023 elections, the damaging effects of how people in the corridors of power get their client/partisan nominees appointed, without being thoroughly screened, and then they are influenced to compromise the integrity of elections’.
Team@orientactualmags.com learned that his Senior Research Assistant, Hamman-Obels, however noted in a statement on Monday that the report in question was not accurate and also failed to reflect his position.
Hamman-Obels, who is also the Director of the Electoral Hub, an Initiative for Research, Innovation and Advocacy in Development said, ‘The attention of Prof. Attahiru Jega has been drawn to a misleading report published in a number of online newspapers quoting him to have commented that the 2023 elections were compromised.
The report making the rounds is incorrect and not an accurate reflection of the presenter’s position. Professor Jega categorically denies making this particular comment about the 2023 polls.
As would be seen in his presentation he made at the Senate Retreat held in Ikot Ipene, Akwa Ibom State, nowhere did he make such a statement that the 2023 elections were compromised. Professor Jega hopes this rebuttal will correct the incorrect and inaccurate reporting currently making the rounds’ -Team@orientactualmags.com
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