It baffles me when lecturers brags about rigging elections – ABU VC

Professor Kabiru Bala, the Vice Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, has revealed his disappointment when he meets lecturers who brag about rigging elections.

In his speech, the ABU Zaria VC said that more Nigerian university lecturers should be more engaged in electoral duties to strengthen sustainable elections in the country, in spite of the conduct of some academics during elections.

Speaking in Zaria, Kaduna State, at the third International Conference organised by the Department of Political Science and International Studies, ABU, in conjunction with the Mambayya House, Aminu Kano Centre for Democratic Studies, Bayero University Kano, the Vice Chancellor 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.”