General elections: Fayose mocks INEC over appointment of Amina Zakari

Ayodele Fayose, former Ekiti state governor, has reacted to the appointment of Amina Zakari as INEC’s head of collation center for the 2019 elections

– Zakari is said to be a niece to President Muhammadu Buhari

– Fayose said that the INEC has shown that the election would not be fair by appointing a blood relation of the president to head such a sensitive position

Former Ekiti state governor, Ayodele Fayose, has reacted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), over the appointment Amina Zakari as its head of collation center for the 2019 elections.

TrackNews reports that Fayose in a series of tweets, frowned at Amina’s appointment owing to the fact that she is a niece to President Muhammadu Buhari.

He said that, “Instead of INEC appointing Amina Zakari, a blood relation (niece) of President Buhari, as the chairperson of INEC advisory committee and presidential election collation center committee, why not just appoint one of the president’s children as INEC chairman?

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday, January 3, constituted two committees ahead of the general elections in 2018.

INEC chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, inaugurated members of the committees – Electoral Logistics and Collation Centre – at a meeting on Thursday in Abuja.

Addressing the meeting, he explained that the committees were set up to drive important components of the electoral process.

“The first committee is responsible for electoral logistics,” the INEC boss said, adding, “The Commission is aware that the conduct of a General Elections is the biggest and most complex logistics operation a nation can undertake.”

He noted that, “Sensitive and non-sensitive materials procured by the Commission must be delivered to almost 200,000 locations nationwide, ranging from the polling units to the various ward, local government, state and the national collation centres for the 1,558 constituencies into which elections will be conducted.

Meanwhile, TrackNews had previously reported that the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), gave the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) 48 hours to rescind its appointment of Amina Zakari, a niece of President Muhammadu Buhari, as head of the elections collation committee.