LGA autonomy: IPAC wants State Electoral Commissions scrapped

IPAC on SIECs

The Inter-Party Advisory Council, (IPAC), has called for immediate scrapping of the State Independent Electoral Commissions, (SIECs). Making the advocacy during a press briefing in Abuja on Friday, IPAC’s national Chairman, Yusuf Dantalle, said the SIECs have proven to be incompetent and incapable of conducting free, fair, credible,transparent, inclusive and peaceful elections. According to him, the States’ electoral bodies have become mere appendages of various government houses. “SIECs do not have voter registers, BVAS, IReV portals, ballot boxes, etc, essential in conducting credible polls. INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu rightly…

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