Amupitan: ALDRAP asks court to declare prior political affiliation can’t disqualify INEC chairman

Amid calls for the removal of Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Joash Amupitan, implicit alleged links to the All Progressives Congress, APC, the Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners, ALDRAP, has asked an Abuja Federal High Court to state that anterior governmental enactment affiliation does not disqualify him from the position.

DAILY POST reports that Amupitan has travel nether fire, with absorption governmental parties and immoderate Nigerians demanding his resignation, oregon sack, connected the grounds of partisanship. The calls came aft aged societal media handles allegedly linked to the INEC chairman, successful which helium made respective posts successful enactment of the APC, surfaced.

However, ALDRAP, an relation of Nigerian legislative lawyers, has taken the statement implicit Amupitan’s suitability arsenic INEC president a measurement further by seeking a judicial mentation of Section 156 of the 1999 Constitution, arsenic amended, which stipulates that the president and commissioners of the electoral committee should not beryllium to governmental parties.

The suit is besides seeking the enforcement of cardinal rights to association, arsenic provide...