INEC chairman decries legal, institutional, political, operational challenges

From Romanus Ugwu, Abuja
The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Joash Amupitan, has expressed deep concerns over the myriad of legal, institutional, political and operational challenges confronting electoral umpires across the African continent.
Amupitan raises the alarm in his remarks while hosting the ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions (ECONEC) delegation at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja on Monday.
The commission’s boss said that though credible elections are fundamental to representative democracy, yet electoral commissions across our region face common challenges.
He further enumerated those challenges undermining the conduct of cr...