As the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) prepares for its election on Monday, the Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), has called for free, fair and credible election.
Its Chairman, Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, in a statement in a statement issued Saturday said that as the umbrella body of all the registered Political Parties in Nigeria, IPAC is a critical platform for the promotion and sustenance of free, fair, credible, transparent, acceptable, inclusive and peaceful electoral environment in Nigeria.
Rafsajani, who is also the Executive Director Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) said Nigerians are not unaware that this critical aim of the conference of political parties have remained a mirage.
He noted: “Be that as it may, this important council must not be allowed to become another appendage of some political merchants and corrupt ruling class just as other independent bodies including election management bodies and the judiciary have appeared to become in Nigeria.
“It is in this light that TMG wishes to draw the attention of the public to the IPAC election, and to state categorically that it is not oblivious of attempts by some desperate political elite especially from the ruling party to plant candidates into the leadership of the council of political parties in the country.
“This unending desire to plant loyalists and people with lack of integrity in every institution of democratic development in Nigeria is damaging to the quality of democracy in the country.
“While the regime has succeeded in planting loyalists in the National Assembly, which is capable of eroding the democratic principle of checks and balances as Nigerians have widely described the current Assembly as a rubber-stamp.
