Politicians biggest problem of elections – Ganduje

The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has said that politicians are the biggest problems confronting elections in Nigeria and not the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as some people may want to believe. He spoke on Wednesday at the APC national secretariat in Abuja when he hosted a […]

The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has said that politicians are the biggest problems confronting elections in Nigeria and not the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as some people may want to believe.

He spoke on Wednesday at the APC national secretariat in Abuja when he hosted a team of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials who were on a verification visit.

“I know one of the biggest problems of INEC in conducting elections is insecurity. Everyone will say INEC, but it’s the politicians.

“So, in order to understand the rules and regulations of elections, in order to understand what is required to be a civilised politician, our institution will be educating our people from time to time so that they can abide by the rules and it will be going digital,” he said.

The APC chairman said the National Working Committee (NWC) had “decided to make our party an ICT party. We have directed for e-registration of our members and we believe that will help us to promote democracy better.

“This will help us in planning, identifying our numbers, sex and age bracket in our party, qualification, profession of party members right from the ward level to the national level.

“We are doing that to improve the democratic principle in the party. We are establishing what we call National Institute for Progressive Studies in order to teach our members the basics of democracy so that the issue of hate speech will be eliminated.”