Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, the leading Igbo socio-cultural organisation, criticised the announcement of Senator Bola Tinubu, the APC candidate, as the president-elect and stated that it utterly rejected the results as announced by the Independent National Election Commission, INEC.
Chief Damian Okeke-Ogene, the organization’s national vice president, said in a statement released on Wednesday in Awka that the group was founded on what it considered to be monumental errors and INEC’s inability to adhere to its rules when conducting the poll.
The leader of Ohaneze urged Nigerians to maintain their composure while stating that the 2023 presidential election will likely not be the last to be discussed.
He said: “With voting and declaration over, other processes will follow. I am sure that many Nigerians will, on their own, go to court to challenge the outcome of the exercise.
” Many people have not accepted the declaration and many do not believe that they have a president-elect yet.
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“This is the worst election conducted by INEC. Imagine our president, Muhammadu Buhari, saying during one of the campaigns that Tinubu is the next president at a time the election had not been conducted, which was an indication that the election was even rigged before it was conducted.
“The INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, was busy promising Nigerians that their votes would count and that the votes would be transmitted from the polling units to INEC server, only for the commission to do everything manually with the attendant corrupt practices.
” As it turned out, many Nigerians voted, but their votes did not count, which was frustrating.
“If the LP goes to court, all the ugly things done during the February, 2023 presidential election will be exposed for the world to see.”
Okeke-Ogene said further that the LP and its presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, had changed the political configuration of the country, adding that things will never be the same again.
“Nigerians are now more determined to take back their country and Ohaneze believes that they will succeed.
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“With what happened in states like Lagos, Plateau, Nasarawa, Kaduna and other places, it is obvious that Nigerians are no longer talking along tribal inclinations,” he said.
He told the international community that in addition to sending observers to Nigeria during elections, they should also sanction those who undermine democracy in the country.
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