Tinubu, APC not controlling INEC – Orji Kalu dismisses opposition’s claims

Former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, has dismissed claims that President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress, APC, are influencing the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, up of the 2027 polls.

Speaking to journalists connected Tuesday arsenic plenary resumed aft the Easter break, Kalu said INEC operates independently nether the chairmanship of Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, without interference from immoderate limb of government.

The Abia North legislator described the opposition’s allegation, pushed chiefly by the African Democratic Congress (ADC), arsenic frivolous and damaging to Nigeria’s antiauthoritarian process.

“The APC arsenic a enactment has thing to bash with INEC. INEC is an autarkic body, and we person a batch of respect for the president of INEC. He is an erudite Professor of Law.

“So, fto america halt this frivolity. People should instrumentality the electoral process and ideology earnestly alternatively of de-marketing the country,” helium said.

Kalu, a erstwhile Senate Chief Whip, besides rejected suggestions that the ruling enactment is coercing governors and different politicians to defect to the APC, saying that enactment rank remains a substance of idiosyncratic prime and negotiation.

“President Tinubu has ne'er begged anybody to permission his enactment oregon to articulation our party. If a politician decides to articulation the APC, that is his business.

“When you come, we negotiate; if it is good, you stay; if not, you go...