Elections: Allegations against Amina Zakari gender-biased violence against women

Elections: Allegations against Amina Zakari gender-biased violence against women - PGI

- Allegations against the national commissioner, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Hajia Amina Zakari has been described as gender-related violence

- Proactive Gender Initiatives (PGI) said people are raising allegations against her because she is a woman

- According to the group, the misinformation about the role Hajia Amina Zakari is going to play at the collation centre is deliberate

Proactive Gender Initiatives (PGI) says allegations being peddled against the National Commissioner, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Hajia Amina Zakari, are gender-related violence that Nigerian women now face in the society.

National coordinator of PGI, a civil society organisation (CSO), Esther Uzoma, made the remark on Sunday in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.

NAN reports that some opposition parties and groups had kicked against INEC’s appointment of Mrs Zakari as chairperson of its national collation centre for the forthcoming elections, arguing that the national commissioner was President Muhammadu Buhari’s niece.

Reacting, Uzoma, who is also the alternate chairperson, Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room, said nobody believed that a woman could rise to such position by her own merit.

She said since the national commissioner had not been found wanting in her responsibility in INEC before, the allegations were uncalled for.

”I also strongly believe that all these people raising allegations against her is because she is a woman.

”It is one of those gender-biased violence. Nobody believes that a woman can rise on her own, by her own merit to that position.

”Has she been accused of any crime at all, all the years she has spent in INEC? Is she under any form of administrative investigation?

”So, I feel strongly that institution of INEC is bigger than any single individual,” she said.

Uzoma, who had served as local and international election observer, said the allegations against Zakari had just gone to show that many Nigerians were yet to understand how INEC works.

”The assumption that one single person can truncate or rig this our election, the assumption that she is so powerful to rig 2019 election in favour of one candidate underlines our gross ignorance of the workings of INEC.

”No, it cannot happen; she doesn’t have that power. The way INEC is structured, no single person can do that.

”The way the system runs, no individual can do that. It cannot happen because I have had the opportunity to interface with that institution strongly. That is my take,” she said .

The national coordinator said she sincerely believed that the deliberate misinformation about the role Hajia Amina Zakari is going to play at the collation centre is deliberate to provoke unnecessary sentiment and heat up the polity.

”Number one, Amina Zakari is not a returning officer. The chief returning officer for the election is Professor Mahmood Yakubu.

”Secondly, the advent of Amina Zakari in INEC preceded the Presidency of President Muhammadu Buhari. She was a staff of INEC before Buhari became the president.

”Number three, she is a chief logistic officer, collation centre. She is in charge of general logistics,” Uzoma stated.

She called on political parties and Nigerians to get acquainted with the operations of the electoral umpire.

”My advice is that people should make enquiry on how INEC works. What exactly is she going to do at the collation centre?

”Remember this election will be opened to both national and international observers. So don’t just come out to start heating up the political process.

”Concentrate on your party and leave this woman alone,” Uzoma said.

Meanwhile, Legit.ng had reported that ahead of the 2019 elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rejected the appointment of Amina Zakari a niece of President Muhammadu Buhari, as the chairman of the result collation committee in the exercise.

The PDP presidential campaign council said this in Abuja at a press conference describing Zakari as a blood relation of Buhari.

The party also said the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmoud Yakubu, was creating a self-succession plan for the president.

NAIJ.com (naija.ng) -> Legit.ng. We have upgraded to serve you better.

I married four wives, built houses under Buhari's regime - farmer boasts| Legit TV.

Source: Legit.ng

from Nigeria News today & Breaking Naija news ▷ Read on LEGIT.NG 24/7 http://bit.ly/2Tutu9l
via EDUPEDIA24/7

Dust haze weather to prevail on Thursday, December 27

- The Nigerian Meteorological agency (NiMet) predicts thick dust haze weather conditions over most parts of the country - NiMet predicts northern states would experience dust haze - The agency also predicts early morning mist/fog is expected over the coastal cities The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted thick dust haze weather conditions with reduced visibility over most parts of the country on Thursday, December 27. NiMet’s Weather Outlook on Wednesday, December 26, in Abuja, revealed that the central region of the country would record dust haze condition with visibility range of two to five kilometres throughout the day. It added that day and night temperatures of 27 degrees Celsius to 34 degrees Celsius and 10 degrees Celsius to 20 degrees Celsius, respectively, would prevail over the region. READ ALSO: Police reportedly arrest Badeh’s alleged killers The agency predicted that the northern states would experience dust haze with visibility range of two to fi...

N2.5bn Fraud: You Have Case To Answer, Appeal Court Tells Suspended NBC Boss, Kawu

The Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, Ishaq Kawu. The Court of Appeal, sitting in Abuja, has dismissed an appeal filed by the suspended Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission, Dr Moddibbo Kawu, challenging the decision of the Federal High Court, to dismiss the no-case submission he filed at the lower court. The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission had charged Kawu, Lucky Omoluwa (late Chairman of Pinnacle Communications Ltd) and Dipo Onifade, Chief Operating Officer of the same company, before Justice Folashade Ogunbanjo-Giwa, on a 12-count charge of money laundering. Is'haq Modibbo Kaw THISDAYLIVE The suspended NBC boss and his co-accused then approached the appellate court to reverse the judgment of the Federal High Court. The appellate dismissed the no-case submission filed by Kawu and his co-accused and held that they had an explanation to give when he elected to facilitate the payment of ...

Buhari’s Legacy Of Recessions By Fredrick Nwabufo

Fredrick Nwabufo ‘Why always Buhari?’ As it was in 1984 under General Buhari, so it is in 2016 and 2020 under President Buhari? Is it by the unfortunate hands of kismet that recession hits Nigeria every time Buhari takes charge of the country’s affairs? If the recession of the 80s under Buhari was a conspiracy by economic and political factors, to what do we attribute that of his first coming as a civilian President — and now in his second coming? Why does pestilence scourge the land, hunger ravage the population and lives lost malevolently when Buhari presides over the country? Why always Buhari? Buhari’s undoing is his wonted predilection for hierarchising ethnicity, religion and loyalty above competence. Since 1999, no President has obtrusively shown a more nepotistic aspect than Buhari. It is unarguable that the President arrays the most competence-challenged cabinet ever in the chronicle of governance in Nigeria. Yes, a recession cabinet. Fredrick Nwabufo Here is a cabin...

EDUPEDIA247

Search This Blog