A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Olisa Agbakoba has commended President Bola Tinubu for suspending the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, and the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdurasheed Bawa.
He further urged the President to remove the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmoud Yakubu.
The former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) made this call in a statement he released via his official Twitter handle on Thursday.
He said Yakubu has to leave his role as the INEC boss so as not to impede the electoral reform in Nigeria, adding that the Confidence in Nigeria’s democracy will be enhanced by a deep cleansing of INEC.
He said, “Full congratulations go to President Tinubu for getting rid of Emefiele and Bawa and fuel subsidy and forex corruption. Endemic corruption has suffered a massive blow.
“Next is for the president to dismantle INEC. Everyone will agree that logistically, the 2023 elections are the worst in our history. I do not refer to the merits of the results of the elections. Many results are disputed and are in Tribunals. Both petitioners and respondents suffered at the hands of an incompetent INEC.
“As we await rulings from the courts massive reforms of the electoral framework ought to begin but this means that the INEC Chairman will have to leave office by resignation or removal, otherwise the reform task will be impeded.
“I add very quickly that the suggested reforms have nothing to do with the merits of election results at all. Both winners and losers of the elections were victims of the failure of INEC. Confidence in Nigeria’s democracy will be enhanced by a deep cleansing of INEC.”