The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) has called for the immediate scrapping of the State Independent Electoral Commissions (SIECS), after the Supreme Court restored local government financial autonomy. The council said that the states electoral bodies have become mere appendages of various government houses. IPAC chairman Yusuf Dantalle disclosed this in Abuja, during a press briefing, saying that SIECs have proven to be incompetent and incapable of conducting free, fair, credible, transparent, inclusive, and peaceful elections. He called for the implementation of the Supreme Court rulings and charged local government chairmen to reciprocate the gesture of this landmark ruling by the
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