The Labour Party (LP) has asked that Professor Mahmood Yakubu be removed as chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) immediately.
The party also demanded that the INEC Federal Commissioner in charge of voter education be fired. Festus Okoye.
The Labour Party Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Organisation issued a statement on Thursday accusing the two persons of directing the commission in the desecration of Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election.
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It further stated that INEC squandered funds provided to it by the government and international organizations for the conduct of the country’s general elections in 2023.
Furthermore, the Labour Party campaign organization claimed that INEC spent billions of dollars on the BVAS and other technological innovations for the 2023 elections but ended up manually manipulating the results to force their preferred presidential candidate on Nigerians.
As a result, it demanded that Yakubu and Okoye be fired immediately and prosecuted for the ‘crimes’ they committed.
The excerpt of the statement as shared by Kenneth Okonkwo on his Twitter account reads: “The Labour Party Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Organisation has demanded unequivocally, the immediate dismissal from office and prosecution of Prof Yakubu Mahmood, INEC Chairman, and Festus Okoye, INEC Federal Commissioner in charge of voter education following the final reports of the Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room and the International Community regarding the desecration of the presidential election of 25th February, 2023.
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“They consequently called for a forensic financial investigation of the billions of naira disbursed and donated to INEC by the government and the international community, who are called upon to sanction these erring officers for wasting their funds and criminally compromising the presidential election to announce their preferred candidate.
“They came to this conclusion because INEC spent billions of tax payers money on the pretext of deploying the BVAS and other technological innovations needed for electronic storage and transmission of election results, but intentionally bypassed these noble inventions during the election in order to manipulate the election and is dubiously turning around to attempt to suggest that manual collation of results may suffice, which will render all our technological improvements in our elections useless.
“They asserted that if Adamawa REC can be prosecuted, Mahmood and Okoye should face worse fate because they committed greater crimes.”
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