Amended Electoral Act is chaos in waiting, don’t assent to it – ex-INEC commissioner advises Tinubu

Ex-Commissioner in the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Mr. Mike Igini has advised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to withhold his assent to the amended Electoral Act by the 10th National Assembly, saying, the amendment is ‘chaos in waiting’.

The Resident Electoral Commissioner said, the Electoral Act (Repeal and Re-Enactment) Bill 2026, is “a recipe for chaos” that could undermine Nigeria’s democracy.

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He expressed concerns on Wednesday in an interview on Arise Television following the Senate and the House of Representatives’ passage of electronic and manual transmission of collated results by the INEC Returning Officer on Tuesday 17th February, 2026.

“It is indeed my humble recommendation to Mr President that you are a man of history. You were a senior man to very many of us in the struggle at the time when the journey of Nigeria and the prospect of democracy was less certain,” he said.

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According to him, INEC tried all it could for the 20215 to reflect the peoples will withut success.So This Happened (EP 374) reviews:

“And also remember that, at a time when the PDP was in office and when we were in office, and they were saying that there was going to be a federal might, some of us stood out to say no.

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