Professor Kabiru Bala, the Vice Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, Prof Kabiru Bala, has revealed that he often see lecturers brag about rigging elections.
According to the ABU VC, the scenario leaves him in grave shock, Daily Report Nigeria reports.
Despite his findings, Bala called for more university lecturers to be engaged in electoral duties towards strengthening and sustaining elections in Nigeria.
The ABU Vice Chancellor said this while speaking at the third International Conference organised by the Department of Political Science and International Studies, ABU, in collaboration with Mambayya House, Aminu Kano Centre for Democratic Studies, Bayero University Kano, in Zaria, Kaduna State.
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He said;
“Academics are a set of people that you can have confidence and trust in. If we want good elections, we have to ensure that the process is well sanitised.
“Therefore, if we think that academics were one group of people that can sanitise the election processes, they should be given the chance to do so.
“I know there are mixed reactions from the academics on the involvement of our members during general elections in Nigeria.
“It makes me shiver when I hear some of our colleagues say, ‘We are the people who rig elections.’ I participated in the process and I know what I did.”
