BREAKING: LABOUR PARTY, PDP, ADC, CALL FOR CANCELLATION OF THE ENTIRE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, CONDUCT OF A FRESH ELECTION, AND REMOVAL OF YAKUBU AS INEC CHAIRMAN

Election – Text of press statement by Barr Julius Abure, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, Dr Mani Ibrahim Ahmed, Others

Nigeria held its general elections on Saturday, February 25, 2023. This press conference is to address the urgent and important issues arising from the exercise. Which was for the election of the president, vice president, and national assembly positions.

The exercise, carried out by the INEC is still underway as we hold this conference collation is still on-going in some parts of the country.

We monitored with dismay the travesty to democracy that was exhibited at the National Collation Centre of INEC. It is, to say the least, a rape on democracy.

The conduct of the February 25, 2023 election has been marred by widespread violence. Rigging, intimidation of voters, doctoring of the results, and violation of the laid down electoral process. Which was communicated by the national electoral body, INEC.

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INEC had announced a process which would require the use of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) for accreditation and voting and that all election results would be electronically transmitted from polling units to INEC Servers.

The above process, published repeatedly, announced severally, and agreed with INEC by all political parties was not followed, thereby leaving room for manipulation of the results after Nigerians had voted.

The results announced by INEC so far shows monumental disparities between the actual results reported by our Party agents. Our party members, and indeed millions of Nigerians, on election day from the polling units.

We have also listened to the arguments made by collation officers of the different political parties.

The crux of the matter is the deliberate refusal of the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu as the National Returning Officer for the presidential election to respond to the demand of political parties for INEC to respect the pre-existing regulations, that results of this election shall be uploaded on the INEC server through the Bio-modal Voter Accreditation System technology.