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Professor Attahiru Jega, a former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission , has denied saying that the 2023 general elections were compromised.
He made the clarification in a statement on Monday signed on his behalf by his Senior Research Assistant , Princess Hamman-Obels.We have seen, in 2023 elections, the damaging effect of how people in the corridors of power get their client/partisan nominees appointed, without being thoroughly screened, and then they are influenced to compromise the integrity of elections.”
The former INEC boss was said to have made the statement at a two-day retreat organised by the Senate in Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State, last week.Hamman-Obels, who is also the Director of The Electoral Hub, an Initiative for Research, Innovation and Advocacy in Development , said.As would be seen in his presentation he made at the Senate Retreat held in Ikot Ipene, Akwa Ibom State, nowhere did he make such a statement that the 2023 elections were compromised.
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