Baba-Ahmed said, “We have not found any basis for doubting the credibility or the competence of INEC to conduct an election.
“At this stage, we believe in INEC, we believe in what they have done,” the NEF spokesman said Tuesday night on Channels Television.
He said, in the North, there was no evidence that INEC would compromise, be partisan or support anybody.
“There have been massive improvements in their processes and I believe in the leadership of INEC. I believe if given the chance, they will deliver a very credible election.”
The PUNCH reports that the INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, has consistently reiterated the Commission’s independence in elections.
INEC has said that it will not support any candidate or political party in the forthcoming elections, as it is only interested in the electoral process.
Yakubu said this when he addressed Supervisory Presiding Officers for the 2023 general election in Abuja, according to a video on the Commission’s Twitter handle on Sunday.
Yakubu had also urged election officers on neutrality.
He advised them not to see their job as a service to INEC but to the country as a whole in which they are equal stakeholders.
“INEC is not a political party. INEC has no candidate in the election. Our commitment is to the process and we will make sure that the process is what we say it should be so that the choice made by Nigerians will determine the outcome of the process,” he said.
