The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Joash Amupitan, has dismissed allegations that INEC is planning to turn Nigeria into a one-party state in favour of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Amupitan made the clarification on Friday during an interview on Arise Television.
The INEC boss said, “Let me state very clearly that I’m not a part of anyone’s plan to turn Nigeria into a one-party state.”
Addressing issues surrounding the commission’s role in the ADC leadership dispute, the INEC chairman said that the commission acted strictly in line with judicial directives.
“If this judgment didn’t come, would I decide on my own? Even on social media, if you look at people who talk, they speak from their own interests.
“The question is whether they lack confidence in what INEC has done. INEC didn’t make the decision that is causing these grievances.”
The commission had earlier cited compliance with an Appeal Court order as the basis for its action. But ADC and other analysts said the plan was to turn Nigeria into one-party state.
