Shehu Sani, a Nigerian senator representing Kaduna central, has called on Nigerian lecturers to stop involving themselves in election process.
Okay Nigeria had earlier reported that Attahiru Jega, former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), revealed that some lecturers involved in 2019 elections connive with politicians to commit irregularities.
Jega said:
“I think the major crisis in Nigeria’s democracy is that our electoral integrity has been under assault, compromised and undermined by those who have control over the process.”
“Look at what happened during the last elections, and the story of irregularities being spread even in the four walls of BUK.
“The politicians, through crooked means, got alliances with lecturers in the university to compromise the system and they perpetrated all sort of irregularities, which pave way for a faulty process for the continued entrenchment of bad people in governance.
“Maybe, I am preaching to the converted or I am talking nonsense but frankly speaking, I am beginning to think that we are not taking the obligations of scholarship and intellectual engagement with the seriousness it deserves.”
However, Shehu Sani reacting to Jega’s statement, advised lecturers to pull out from participating in election process in the country.
Sani tweeted:
“In the light of the new revelations,University lecturers should pull out from participating in the conduct of national elections to save the reputation & protect the moral sanctity of the academia.The Ivory tower shouldn’t be smeared with political feaces.”
