Fayose blast Buhari... Says The acting INEC Chairperson is Buhari’s in-law, Fayose alleges - See more

Fayose blast Buhari... Says The acting INEC Chairperson is Buhari’s in-law, Fayose alleges - See more

Ado Ekiti — Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, has alleged that Mrs Amina Zakari, the Acting Chairperson of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is President Muhammadu Buhari’s in-law and that the position is unknown to the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The governor, who called on Nigerians to rise in defence of the impartiality of INEC, added that: “The most honourable thing for President Buhari to do is to rescind the unlawful appointment of Mrs Zakari as INEC Acting Chairperson.”

In a statement issued Sunday by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said; “Since Mrs Zakari’s tenure as INEC National Electoral Commissioner has expired, she cannot continue to preside legally on INEC affairs, except if duly appointed as substantive Chairman of the commission as provided in the constitution.”

The governor said; “One of the major legacies bequeathed to Nigeria by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP federal government was free, fair and credible electoral process and President Buhari, who is a beneficiary of this legacy must sustain it by ensuring that the impartiality of the electoral umpire is unblemished by suspicions of partisanship and illegal appointments.”