IPAC Expresses Support For INEC Chairman

The National Chairman of Intraparty Advisory Council, IPAC, Engr. Yabagi Yusuf Sani has expressed support for the national Chairman of INEC, Professor Mahmoud Yakoub, adding that he is confident that the Independent National Electoral Commission will live up to expectations in the 2023 general elections.

Sani said this in a speech at the INEC Headquarters in Abuja during its quarterly meeting with political parties.

He reiterated the continued commitment of IPAC to the longstanding cooperation and mutually beneficial relationship between it and the INEC, adding that this occasion is to also reaffirm the confidence of IPAC in the leadership of INEC for its consistent demonstration of diligence, uncommon zeal and patriotism in the pursuit of the agency’s statutory mandate

“On the basis of our evaluation that INEC has been well on track, the leadership of IPAC additionally, wishes to use this occasion to condemn the emerging antics and smear campaign by certain shadowy and cowardly figures who clearly have embarked on the treacherous and unpatriotic conspiracy of reversing the outstanding landmarks, the INEC has recorded in recent years in the annals of the nation’s electoral history.

”To us in IPAC, the real object of the darts of venom being directed at the person of the Chairman and the institution of the INEC are merely a decoy. The real target of the machinations is the circumvention of the deployment of the Biomodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, the Electronic Transfer of results and the other security devices INEC has deftly and painstakingly put in place to enhance the integrity of the electoral process.

“The spurious allegations they are orchestrating especially in the online platforms are part of the strategies to prepare the grounds for their planned onslaught to achieve their nefarious goal within legal frameworks.

“It is also aimed at blackmailing and intimidating Professor Mahmood Yakubu to surrender by compromising the stance of the Commission on the strident, airtight security measures against the maladies of rigging and other electoral malpractices that had perennially tarnished the integrity of elections in the country in the past”, he said.