 Now, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Einig Mahmoud Yakubu, says, the commission lacks the power to force any electoral candidate to attend a debate. Yakubu who made this known during the quarterly consultative meeting with the media executives in Aboja said that debates are a democratic right and cannot be forced on any candidate and that they were, however, unspoken consequences for those who failed to attend. He stated that even in most advanced countries, nobody can be compelled to do anything in democracy.