The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reassured that it will not support any candidate or political party in the 2023 general election, saying it is only interested in the electoral process.
The Commission’s Chairman,Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, stated this when he addressed Supervisory Presiding Officers (SPOs) for the 2023 general election, in Abuja.
Yakubu urged them to be committed to their oath of neutrality and allegiance to Nigeria.
He advised them not to see their job as a service to INEC but to the country as a whole in which they were equal stakeholders.
According to him, “The Commission is determined that the 2023 general election will be the best ever; and you are the people that will help the Commission to make it happen, and help to ensure that Nigeria has a pleasant experience on election day”.
“INEC is not a political party. INEC has no candidate in the election. Our only interest is in the processes. The choice of who becomes what in Nigeria is left to the Nigerian people to decide”, he emphasised.
Yakubu described the work of the SPOs as critical to the success of the 2023 general election, urging them to uphold the integrity of the process.
Yakubu added that the training was going on simultaneously in all states and the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT). He said that the training was a further reassurance to Nigerians of INEC’s readiness to conduct the election on February 25 and March 11.
