{"id":8725,"date":"2025-09-16T12:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=8725"},"modified":"2025-09-16T12:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:20:07","slug":"buba-galadima-warns-that-nigeria-could-face-civil-unrest-if-notorious-judge-is-appointed-inec-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2025\/09\/16\/buba-galadima-warns-that-nigeria-could-face-civil-unrest-if-notorious-judge-is-appointed-inec-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Buba Galadima warns that Nigeria could face civil unrest If notorious judge is appointed INEC chairman."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-body-top\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1500386953281-8\" data-google-query-id=\"CO_r34Gh3Y8DFQaW_QcddmYnXg\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/14001636\/DP_Leaderboard_1_0__container__\">New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, chieftain, Buba Galadima, has warned that Nigeria could face civil unrest if the federal government goes ahead with an alleged plan to appoint a retired Court of Appeal judge as chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Galadima spoke on Monday while fielding questions on Arise Television\u2019s Prime Time programme.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NNPP chieftain, there were widespread rumours that the government was considering the appointment of the retired judge, whom he described as \u201cnotorious.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-18\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1524595905268-5\" data-google-query-id=\"CPHr34Gh3Y8DFQaW_QcddmYnXg\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/14001636\/DP_InsidePost_MPU_2_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cCome November, there are rumours all over the place that this government is nominating a just-retired Court of Appeal judge who is known for notoriety to be the chairman of INEC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish it were not true. Because if that man becomes the chairman of INEC, be assured that this government is inviting a civil war in this country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He accused the current administration of disregarding the rule of law and claimed that INEC under its present leadership was already compromised in favour of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe INEC chairman has already rigged the election for APC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey brought somebody who is the secretary of the party that went to court for APC as acting national chairman, and he was rewarded with the chairman of INEC,\u201d he alleged.<\/p>\n<p>Galadima said such developments threaten the credibility of Nigeria\u2019s electoral system and could destabilise the country if allowed to continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this man is appointed INEC chairman, then forget about elections in Nigeria. Because there would be no elections in this country, and it would create chaos,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p>He urged Nigerians to be vigilant, insisting that individuals with questionable records must not be allowed to oversee the nation\u2019s electoral processes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"heateorSssClear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, chieftain, Buba Galadima, has warned that Nigeria could face civil unrest if the federal government goes ahead with an alleged plan to appoint a retired Court of Appeal judge&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8728,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8725\/revisions\/8728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}