Is INEC Really Independent In Nigeria?

[Sticky Bomb]

but from what I know as a citizen of Nigeria it's the seating president that appoints an INEC officials to conduct the elections for them so if that's the case then they will continue to work for who have employed them, if there was a way that the officials won't be appointed by any government officials then we would have gotten our votes counts during every elections.

I have never trust INEC before because those people are part of our problem and if there are ways of solving theirs by  appointing someone who is corrupt free then Nigeria will solve her problem of leadership by 50%. The only solution now is for the masses to come out and vote massively for their preferred candidates and if they rig it, then revolution starts.

INEC can never be independent as long as the chairman position is a presidential appointment, definitely they would appoint their allys to aid them continue their dirty antics and Judiciary can never deliver accurate judgement since the attorney general of the federation is still appointed by the president, so they are only tools always at the discretion of presidents to utilize to their advantage, there would only be independence and accountability when these bodies are allowed to elect their own leaders from democratic processes from within without any form of control either from the executive or legislative bodies.

[God Tim]

Well well for clear understanding for such people are not yet shown the way of INEC and for election ideas. In a good way a good response  for democracy any time to add up many people still not yet believe that election is not good its weakness to control in the system way of it during the way. What Nigeria is still not getting is the lack of transparency, account and the truth election also as the confidence in the results.

[Alonso_]

How do you think that INEC is going to be independent when the INEC Chairman is appointed by the sitting President, I think that is something that Nigeria is getting wrong, I don’t really know how the Nigerian Constitution actually works, but I’m more concerned about the fact that INEC body should be more like a private entity and private appointment, the way that judiciary is under the Presidency, and the Presidency still appoints the Chief Judge of the Country.

This are things that Nigerian is absolutely getting wrong and that is absolutely wrong, Nigeria isn’t going anywhere until things have been changed, so many things needs to change in Nigeria.

[gracreavix]

INEC was an independent body but not anymore. After the government bought them in the last election when they said the results of the election when everyone was still sleeping. As of now, the people have lost complete trust in INEC, that I won't blame them. What the citizens witnessed is enough to lose that trust.

This just shows that INEC is independent on paper and not truly an independent body. For the most part, they are not being hold accountable for any wrong doings. Even the government sef are above the law. The body just lack transparency and that supposed to be the core backbone of the body INEC.

[Berry2d]

INEC was an independent body but not anymore. After the government bought them in the last election when they said the results of the election when everyone was still sleeping. As of now, the people have lost complete trust in INEC, that I won't blame them. What the citizens witnessed is enough to lose that trust.

This just shows that INEC is independent on paper and not truly an independent body. For the most part, they are not being hold accountable for any wrong doings. Even the government sef are above the law. The body just lack transparency and that supposed to be the core backbone of the body INEC.

Since the existence of Nigeria INEC have never operated in a neutral ground and saying they stopped being independent in the last concluded election is a complete lie because I have never seen Nigeria INEC make any fair judgement in Nigeria elections.
If you say this manipulations started in the last concluded election, what can you say happened when Muhammad Buhari won goodluck Jonathan, then it was very difficult for the INEC chairman to announce the winner because even him was confused on the level of manipulation that happened in that years election result.

[Halifat]

INEC was an independent body but not anymore. After the government bought them in the last election when they said the results of the election when everyone was still sleeping. As of now, the people have lost complete trust in INEC, that I won't blame them. What the citizens witnessed is enough to lose that trust.

This just shows that INEC is independent on paper and not truly an independent body. For the most part, they are not being hold accountable for any wrong doings. Even the government sef are above the law. The body just lack transparency and that supposed to be the core backbone of the body INEC.

I like how you address this issue, by using the word was for INEC, because that is the FACT. For a very long time now we masses softly in the hands of our politician just because INEC could not be able to protect us, they are actually the reason why we continue to suffer in the hands of this bad politicians because if not for them by now Nigeria will be a very great country but despite this we still have hope that one day Nigeria will walk again. I don't really know how this 2027 will be but already I found it very easy to predict the results with the way inec are going this time around but let get there before we throw a final conclusion.

[EarnOnVictor]

The INEC body is no longer independent, and are being ordered about by Nigeria politicians instead of standing on their ground as an independent body.

Is there a time that INEC was independent?

If the "Independent" in their name is deceiving anyone, such a person should wake up immediately, as INEC wasn't and never will be independent, unless they are truly autonomous, and their leaders' selections must be independent of the Nigerian president.

[Salahmu]

How do you think that INEC is going to be independent when the INEC Chairman is appointed by the sitting President, I think that is something that Nigeria is getting wrong, I don’t really know how the Nigerian Constitution actually works, but I’m more concerned about the fact that INEC body should be more like a private entity and private appointment, the way that judiciary is under the Presidency, and the Presidency still appoints the Chief Judge of the Country.

This are things that Nigerian is absolutely getting wrong and that is absolutely wrong, Nigeria isn’t going anywhere until things have been changed, so many things needs to change in Nigeria.

It was either ignorant or international that our constitution was written that only president will bring who will be called an INEC chairman because since the chairman is someone free from politics, they should have also eradicated any political person to do the appointment because anything in this country that one person is a politician to execute something that will have power in the country a personal and party interest will definitely surfaced, so actually the learning and comprehension of future rising issues has been what our decisions leaders had started lacking from the beginning that is why they gave lawful right to something that shouldn't be so.