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Supporting INEC, MURIC Cautions Against Recurrence Of June 12

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The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has received support from the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) for the conduct of the 2023 Presidential and National Assembly elections.
The opposition, according to the organisation, is allegedly attempting to halt the ongoing election by using the legal system.

Yet, it issued a caution against a recurrence of the June 12, 1993 crisis.
Any attempt to impose a second June 12 will be rejected, according to Professor Ishaq Akintola, Executive Director of MURIC.
This caution was made by Akintotal on Tuesday in Lagos during a news briefing.

MURIC said the allegation by the opposition parties that the election was rigged was illogical when many incumbent governors lost out in their bids to go to the Senate.

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He said, “This is another June 12 loading. Like Arthur Nzeribe headed for the courts in 1993 to stop the announcement of results of the June 12 election, the agent of the main opposition and his cohorts who stormed out of the collation centre is allegedly looking for a court injunction to stop proceedings at the collation centre.

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“This was exactly how the June 12, 1993 election was annulled by the military. Anybody who supports this move is dragging Nigeria back to the Stone Age. We say no to another June 12.

Akintola also denounced what he called the “unsolicited and jaundiced intervention” of former President Olusegun Obasanjo who called for the cessation of the collation of results.

“Obasanjo’s call is sacriledgious. It is a rape of democracy. It is an attempted coup.
Obasanjo’s sanctimonious façade comes crumbling down against the background of his role in the enthronement of Musa Yaradua as president. The latter himself admitted that he was rigged into office,” he said.

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MURIC urged INEC to ignore the cries of the opposition and go ahead with the process even as it condemned the decision of the opposition agents to storm out of the INEC situation room.

“INEC should not listen to these agents diabolic. The electoral body should not stop the collation of results, rather the exercise should continue until all the results are announced and certificates of return given to the winners,” Akintola added.

 

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