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NATIONAL Democratic Coalition (NADECO), one of the foremost pro-democracy organisations of Nigeria is set for a press event at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. today, March 8, 2023, beginning at 12:00 noon, EST.
The coalition, which led the efforts to send the military back to the barracks and restore democracy to the country will at the event, begin a global call for action to redress what it regards as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)’s duplicity in the February 25, 2023, presidential election that endangers democracy in the Giant of Africa.
A statement from the group which prides itself as Nigeria’s watchdog of democracy said that its major mandate is to always fight for the enthronement of the rule of law and democracy in the country.
It alleges that the February 25 election results pronounced by the INEC are fatally flawed and fundamentally at odds with Nigeria’s electoral laws and if left unchallenged would constitute wholesale disenfranchisement of Nigerian voters.
The group is alleging that the pervasive rot in Nigeria’s increasingly kleptocratic political structure is responsible for the electoral fiasco that is being challenged by three of the major opposition parties, and wants INEC to make its systems more transparent so that the truth of what transpired at the polls can be made public.
The group insists that the election “was polluted by blatant bribery and widespread corruption,” stressing that “even INEC has itself admitted to its abject failures to comply with the requisite transparency laws mandating real-time electronic transmission of election results from the polling units to the public, instead opting to cloak the electronic results in darkness before emerging with a declared rather than proved “winner” who is presently incapable of being fully embraced by the World.”
The group, which has members spread across the world maintains that “the 2023 Nigerian Presidential Election is an attempt to disenfranchise the Nigerian people through the Four Horsemen of the Democracy’s Doom – bribery, intimidation, insecurity and vote rigging, all harnessed to skew the results of the 2023 Nigerian Presidential Election,” and calls upon the People and the Judiciary of Nigeria and the International Community to join hands in a concerted effort to globally condemn and absolutely reject “the hasty, hollow and illegitimate result declared by INEC as being contrary to the will of the people and the rule of law.”
–(Text excluding headline from GP News)
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