Lecturers endorsing politicians can’t be returning officers – Atiku’s aide to INEC

Phrank Shaibu, the Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication to the African Democratic Congress, ADC, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on Monday, cautioned the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, against trusting lecturers who declared allegiance to politicians with sensitive electoral responsibilities.

Shaibu said any academic who openly endorses a presidential candidate should not be given INEC assignments such as returning officer, collation officers or officials entrusted with the collation, declaration and announcement of election results.

More than 600 senior academics from public universities in Northern Nigeria had endorsed President Bola Tinubu’s second-term bid.

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