INEC Former Chairman, Jega Predicts Outcome Of 2023 General Election, Express Fear

Prof. Attahiru Jega, a former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has expressed concern over the current developments in the political space.

The former INEC chief, who spoke on Wednesday, November 30, said he had a lot of fears about what would be the outcome of the 2023 general elections, The Punch reported.

He spoke to newsmen on the sidelines of a colloquium organised by the Director of The Electoral Hub, Princess Hamman-Obels in honour of a Senior Fellow of the Centre for Democracy Development, Prof. Adele Jinadu, on his 79th birthday.

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Although Jega expressed fears about the outcome of the 2023 election, he believed that the country would pull through.

The former INEC chairman, who was also a former Vice-Chancellor of Bayero University, Kano, expressed hope that Nigeria would survive the challenges and have a successful poll.

His words:

“I have a lot of fears about the outcome of the election. But you’ll see people like me are, what I call, an incurable optimists about the future of our country.

“So I remain hopeful that in spite of the recklessness that we see, in spite of the vandalism that we see perpetrated by many of our so-called leading politicians, we are hopeful that people will mobilize and become effectively engaged in the electoral process so that we have a good outcome in 2023.

“We can’t give up hope. We still have to engage because the more we engage, the more the possibility of change happening.”