Mike Igini, a former Resident Electoral Commissioner with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has expressed deep regret over dedicating a decade of his career to the electoral commission.
In an interview on Arise News, Igini spoke about the entrenched opposition to credible elections and the dangers reformers face.
He recalled that a colleague in Kano was murdered for trying to “do the right thing.”
“I spent over 30 years of my life, including 10 practical years in INEC, working to remove the history of our elections from the realm of frustration and pain, so we can give meaning and purpose to the ballot as the best means of expressing the will of the people in a democracy,” Igini said.
Reflecting on his experience, he added, “To now find out that all that we did was in vain, that’s why I regret that I wasted my 10 years in service of the fatherland because I’d have been a dead man by now.
“I would have been a dead man pursuing this cause; my colleague in Kano was killed because we wanted to do the right thing for Nigeria. His entire family wiped out.”
