We will never compromise our integrity – INEC replies Obasanjo

– The commission made the statement after former President Olusegun Obasanjo accused it of being compromised

– The electoral body dismissed the former president’s allegation as unnecessary insinuations

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has responded to the allegations by the former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, that the commission could not be trusted to conduct a free and fair election.

The chairman of INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, who spoke during a meeting with the new Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, dismissed Obasanjo’s statement as mere insinuation.

Yakubu said INEC will do everything within its powers to ensure that the election is free and fair, Daily trust reports.

He said: “This is to be expected in an election year when people make all sorts of insinuations.

“I want to tell you that we as a commission have never been under any pressure to do what is wrong. We will never compromise our integrity to do what the law says that we shouldn’t and for the 2019 general elections, I want to assure and reassure Nigerians that votes and nothing but votes will count.”

Tracknews.ng earlier reported that INEC said nobody within or outside the commission can rig the forthcoming general elections.

The chief press secretary to INEC chairman, Rotimi Oyekanmi, stated this on Wednesday, in Abuja, while responding to allegations made against the Commission by the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday, January 21, in Abuja.