Tsohon shugaban kungiyar lauyoyin Najeriya, Cif Wole Olanipekun SAN, ya soki sashe na 65 na dokar zabe ta 2022 a ranar Larabar da ta gabata, wanda ya baiwa jami’in hukumar zabe mai zaman kanta damar dawo da dan takara tare da sake duba hukuncin da ya yanke.
Olanipekun, wanda ya ce matakin na da hadari ga harkokin siyasa da dimokuradiyya, ya ce “Jami’in da ya dawo ba kotun shari’a ba ce, ba kotu ba ce, kuma ba ta da hurumin aiwatar da hukuncin kisa ko kuma daukar hurumin yanke hukunci kan duk wani lamari da ya shafi al’amura da suka shafi shari’a. shari’a ce a dabi’a.”
Sashe na 65 (1) na dokar zabe ya bayyana cewa, “Shawarar jami’in da ya dawo zai zama na karshe a kan duk wata tambaya da ta taso daga ko kuma ta shafi (a) takardar kada kuri’a mara alamar; (b) kin amincewa da katin zabe; da (c) ayyana yawan ’yan takara da dawowar dan takara: Matukar dai hukumar za ta samu ikon a cikin kwanaki bakwai na sake duba sanarwar da dawowa inda hukumar ta tabbatar da cewa ba a kan radin da aka yi ba ko kuma aka yi wannan bayanin. wanda aka yi saɓanin tanadin doka, ƙa’idoji, ƙa’idodi, da kuma littafin jagorar zaɓe.”
Sai dai babban lauyan wanda ya yi magana da manema labarai a Ado Ekiti, babban birnin jihar Ekiti bayan ziyarar da ya kai wa Gwamna Biodun Oyebanji, ya ce, “Babban jami’in da ke karbar katin zabe shi ne shugaban INEC, ma’ana zai iya mayar da wani a matsayin shugaban kasa. yau da gobe idan ana tada hankali nan da can, yana iya janye shawararsa, ya ce, ‘Ni kaina nake bita, yanzu kuma na dawo da wani’.
“A gare ni, sashe ne mai hatsarin gaske, don haka labari ne a ma’anar cewa yana ba jami’in da ke dawowa aiki bayan ya dawo don duba shawararsa a cikin kwanaki bakwai.”
A cewarsa, tare da wannan sashe na dokar zabe, “Kuna ba jami’in da zai dawo da aiki, kuma, a karawa INEC, ikon yin da kuma soke shi. Lokacin da kuka saka hannun jarin jami’in zabe na INEC, ikon yin ko gyara, ya dawo ya sake duba shawararsa, yana da hadari ga harkokin siyasa.”
Olanipekun, wanda ya ce bai san wani sashe makamancin haka ba a duk wata dokar zabe da ta gabata ko kuma wani sashe makamancin haka a cikin ayyukan zabe na kowace kasa a duniya, ya bayyana mamakinsa yadda majalisar dokokin kasar ta kyale wannan sashe ya shiga cikin dokar zabe. wanda suka mikawa shugaban kasa, Manjo Janar Muhammadu Buhari (mai ritaya), domin ya sanya wa hannu.
Lauyan majalisar ya ce har yanzu majalisar dokokin kasar na iya cire wannan tanadi, ya kuma yi kira ga masu ruwa da tsaki musamman jam’iyyun siyasa da su sanya ido a kan INEC da jami’an da za su dawo domin kada wani abu da ya faru ga jam’iyya ko dan takarar da ya dawo domin a yi masa kwaskwarima.