Politics
By Anthony Isibor
THE National Youth Leader of the Labour Party, Kennedy Ahanotu, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to declare Peter Obi, its candidate, as winner of the just concluded February 25 presidential election.
Ahanotu, who made the call on Monday, Feb. 27, 2023, noted that it is obvious that some unscrupulous elements hiding under the electoral umpire and in visible partnership with the electoral umpire INEC have concluded to derail the country’s growing democracy.
According to him, the election conducted on Febreuary 25, 2023 was marred by massive irregularities and could not just be regarded as a political disappointment, but has consequentially endangered Nigeria’s democracy.
He therefore demanded that Peter Obi be declared the winner of 2023 presidential election and be returned elected.
Other demands made include the suspension of the collation of the various state election result at the International Conference Center, ICC, henceforth without the results being uploaded or made readily available on the INEC IREV platform, and that the already announced Ekiti State result be revisited and dully verified before final collation.
“An election where the electoral umpire INEC deliberately refused to respect their establishment Act, the Electoral Act 2022, an election where the people’s popular choice at the various polling units across Nigeria is under serious jeopardy, an election that even some key observers have complained about its process,” he said.
While thanking Nigerian Youths for voting for Peter Obi, en-mass, he expressed dissatisfaction that the results being announced do not reflect and correspond with the results of the votes casted by Nigerians at their various polling units, and urged all Obideients to remain focused and issue based despite the provocation.
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