The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) wants the leadership of the INEC to relieve Professor Okechukwu Ibeano of the duty of coordinating logistics for the Presidential and National Assembly election now slated for February 23.
The organization said this will form part of immediate remediation of the “embarrassing postponement of the Presidential and National Elections from the Saturday, February 16, 2019 date”.
This it said is because of his role in the international shame that led to the postponement of the election from its original date.
BMO said Ibeano has not shown capacity to continue in that role.
“After getting all the funding it asked for, INEC surprisingly handed over one of the most important jobs in the electoral process to an individual that has barely spent eighteen months in the Commission and who is not known to have any prior working knowledge of the process.
“It is clear that the job of manning election logistics is not one that ought to have been given to a neophyte national commissioner and there is no way that Ibeano could do better than he did on February 16 going forward.
“So there is no way his retention as the head of Electoral Operations and Logistics would be acceptable to Nigerians”. BMO said.
It also noted that the alleged relationship between Ibeano and former INEC chairman Maurice Iwu who is a technical consultant to the opposition Presidential candidate is enough reason for the election management board to disqualify him from holding such a sensitive position.