Rep. Akpodiogaga Emeyese expressed the belief that setting up of such tribunal was long overdue.

The Political Adviser to Gov. Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta, Chief Fred Majemite, expressed similar views, saying that INEC could only petition but did not have the power of arrest and prosecution in the current dispensation.

He said INEC’s reliance on police and other law enforcement agencies to arrest and prosecute electoral offenders had not made their job easy on the commission’s effort to curb electoral malpractices.

“Hearing of such cases in the conventional courts delays the dispensation of justice.”

For Danladi Ibrahim, a public commentator in Yola, INEC is weak in implementing the election guidelines.

“You see posters, bill boards and you hear and see media campaigns telling you to vote for this man or that woman going on in our media ahead of the campaign period,” he said.

On the delay in the passage of Electoral Act, many respondents in Adamawa said it was not too late for now.

” It can be passed a month to the election; as you know there wasn’t any much amendment in the act,” Ibrahim said.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Ondo State chapter Publicity Secretary, Mr Abayomi Adesanya, also expressed concern on the need for INEC to enforce guidelines towards the 2015 elections.

“We hope they will start to enforce their own guidelines because a political party has been flouting these guidelines and there has been no penalty for doing so.

A Calabar-based legal practitioner, Mr Utum Eteng, expressed fears that INEC might be in a dilemma over the conduct of the polls because of the proposed amendments to the Electoral Act.

NAN findings showed that NASS recently harmonised the amendments to the act but was yet to transmit the document to the executive for assent.

Eteng, however, said that INEC could still use the old law to conduct the 2015 election.

In Benue, stakeholders rejected the deployment of soldiers to monitor the elections.

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Makurdi branch, said it was partnering with INEC to prosecute electoral offenders during the conduct of 2015 elections in the state.