INEC’s regulatory abdication and the shrinking democratic space

The recent meeting between the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the factional leaderships of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), held in response to the party’s internal crisis, represents not conflict management but regulatory abdication. Not surprisingly, it achieved nothing substantive because it could achieve nothing substantive.

INEC was wrong to have even held that meeting. A regulator does not convene warring factions to dialogue their way out of breaches of law; it enforces compliance! Anything short of that signals weakness, confusion of role or even worse.

Umar Ardo, Ph.D wrote from Abuja

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