Attahiru Jega, a former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, on Monday, refuted claims that the 2023 elections were compromised.
Jega allegedly made this statement during a two-day retreat that the Senate hosted in Ikot Ipene, Akwa Ibom State, last week.
The professor of political science at Bayero University, Kano, presented a paper titled, “Electoral Reform and Democratic Consolidation in Nigeria: Review of 2022 Electoral Act (areas for further legislative actions), in which he was quoted to have said, “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.”
