Elder statesman and Ijaw leader, Edwin Clark has lamented that the general elections, starting from Saturday, may not be free, fair and credible.

Clark anchored his fears on the public confession of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu that a senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Niger State, Alhaji Muhammed Sani, was a contractor of the Commission.

Speaking with reporters on Wednesday in his country home in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, Clark wondered if it was politically correct for a card carrying member of APC to be a contractor of INEC.

He said: “Senatorial Candidate is your contractor supplying sensitive materials?

“I could forgive him (Prof Mahmood) for the benefit of the doubt that he was not in INEC in 2011 and 2015. But there are senior electoral commissioners who should, if thy at honest, brief the chairman of this fact.”

He charged INEC’s Chairman to tell Nigerians, “whether the engagement of an interested party as a contractor for the production of sensitive materials is morally and politically justifiable and if elections conducted in such a situation will be free, fair and credible.”

Source: http://dailypost.ng/2019/02/20/nigerias-elections-election-may-not-free-fair-credible-edwin-clark/

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