'I'm Not And Will Never Be Influenced By Presidency,' INEC Chairman Says

Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Friday, December 16, said nobody can scare or impact him in the running of the Commission.

Yakubu expressed this while pronouncing open a limit improvement workshop for INEC squeeze corps, with the subject 'Repositioning the Media for Effective Coverage of Electoral Processes.'

He reviewed how INEC specialists were brutalized and practically executed amid the Rivers rerun race, including that there were 70 rates of think check.

He faulted government officials required in the decision for the arrangement of brutality that defaced the surveys, noticing that it is as a consequence of their despise discourses.

On the assertions of pay off against INEC staff, Yakubu said a regulatory request will be set up to reveal what unfolded, cautioning that any of them discovered blameworthy will be managed as needs be.

Reacting to a question on whether he was being affected by the administration, he said: "For the individuals who know me, it is past the point of no return for me to be scared by anyone at this stage. There is nothing I am searching for that God has not given me.

"The main occupation I appealed to God for is to be an instructor, however I am a teacher. 

So anything I do now is a reward. I don't think anyone can scare me or impact me to do anything at this stage. In this way, straightforwardly or in a roundabout way, I have not been drawn nearer by anyone to do anything in any capacity. There is no impact in INEC; there will never be an impact on INEC."

The Chairman added that the best foundation to evaluate INEC would be the result of surveys.