According to studies making the rounds, the departments embrace Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Procurement, Planning and Monitoring, Litigation and Prosecution, Commission Secretariat, Voter Register and Audit.
There are claims that whereas seven departments are headed by administrators from the South-West, different geopolitical zones, together with the South-South, South-East, North-Central, North-West and North-East, reportedly have one director every.
In a submit on his official Facebook web page, Nigerian businessman and social commentator Prince Isaac Fayose questioned whether or not the fee belonged to a single tribe.
He known as on INEC to urgently deal with the allegations to revive public confidence in its repute and independence.
“While I’m not insinuating something past what any cheap Nigerian would insinuate below the circumstance, is it correct, truthful, protected and acceptable that people from a specific geopolitical zone and tribe have full management of unarguably essentially the most sensitive departments of INEC throughout a common election?
“INEC wants to obviously, urgently, publicly and transparently deal with this subject — if it desires to be seen as actually impartial, neutral and uncompromised.
“Politicians should not try to achieve through the back door what they have not earned and can’t achieve through the front door — especially using a publicly funded institution that is supposed to be independent, impartial and above reproach,” he wrote.
Similarly, an X person, Dr Michael Abiodun, mentioned that if the viral checklist was correct, “then this is not INEC Headquarters structure, this is the Afenifere branch office with the INEC logo”.
According to him, “if true, how do you persuade South-Easterner that outcome on IReV was not manipulated, when particular person controlling ICT, Voter Register and Litigation are all from one zone? Even if they’re saints, notion alone kills legitimacy, Election is not only about counting, it’s about believing counting.
“But let me even be sincere, this checklist flies round each election season, Sometimes it’s exaggerated, Sometimes it’s outdated, Sometimes they depend performing administrators as substantive, So earlier than we burn INEC, INEC ought to publish full organogram with names, states, and date of appointment on its web site at the moment, Not press launch, organogram.
“If list is false, publishing will kill fake news, If list is true, then INEC Chairman has 48 hours to correct it in line with Federal Character, because you cannot preach credible election with incredible structure”.
Also talking on the matter, Paul Ibe, a media aide to the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, urged the fee to right away deal with the issues, stating that Nigerians deserved a (*7*).
“Given INEC’s constitutional accountability to conduct free, truthful and credible elections, Nigerians deserve a clear rationalization of this obvious imbalance and whether or not the appointments adjust to the federal character precept.
“Electoral impartiality must not only be guaranteed; it must also be demonstrably evident,” he wrote on X.
