2027: INEC can’t be truly independent without financial autonomy — Amupitan

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Joash Amupitan, says the committee cannot beryllium genuinely autarkic without fiscal autonomy.

Amupitan made this assertion on Thursday at the nationalist presumption of ‘Shadows: Protest Essays connected Africa’s Most Consequential Country (1999–2023)’, authored by THISDAY Managing Director, Mr Eniola Bello.

He cautioned that persistent dependence connected the mean budgetary process weakens INEC’s operational independence, adding that specified could undermine efforts to present free, just and credible elections successful 2027.

According to him, portion the electoral assemblage remains cardinal to the electoral process, the work for credible elections extends to governmental parties, information agencies, the media, civilian nine organisations and Nigerians themselves.

“Can INEC genuinely beryllium autarkic without fiscal autonomy? If we are superior astir strengthening our institutions and conducting free, just and credible elections, past fiscal autonomy is essential,”...