Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC) has aligned itself with the position of the leader of apex socio-cultural Yoruba group, Afenifere, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, that Nigeria is yet to have a president-elect.
Commenting on the just-concluded presidential and National Assembly (NASS) elections which has been adjudged to be fraught with irregularities and violence, among others, the national president of OYC, Comrade Igboayaka O. Igboayaka, said INEC chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, should tell Nigerians the alleged deal he struck with the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, before Nigeria is plunged into avoidable crisis.
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“Nigeria and indeed the world must acknowledge that according to the electoral law/guidelines “Section 60 (5) of the Electoral Act 2022 and Clause 38 of the Regulations and Guidelines for the Conduct of Election, 2022, stated that presiding officers must transmit results to the INEC Result Viewing Portal on completion of elections. Failure to comply to this is a criminal offence,” he added. He said this implies that Prof Mahmood Yakubu and his cohorts committed electoral fraud and must be prosecuted in line with the laws of the land.
“Therefore, going by the INEC’s laid down rules and guidelines, it’s obvious that there’s no president-elect yet in Nigeria. Any attempt to handover to Bola Tinubu without rectifying these issues and following the established electoral procedures is a deliberate act to lead Nigeria into anarchy.
“To avoid anarchy consuming Nigeria, INEC chairman Prof Mahmood Yakubu should announce results collected from polling units to declare the actual winner of 2023 presidential election,” Igboayaka said.
He said, “The fraudulent election conducted by Prof. Mahmood Yakubu under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari is an invitation to anarchy in Nigeria.
“We promise Yakubu that the agreement reached with Tinubu to upturn the will and wish of youths and to subject the Nigerian youths into continuous unemployment and penury would amount to nothing as he will not enjoy the deal under the sun.
“Prof. Yakubu‘s electoral fraud has increased the number of aggressive youths in Nigeria, and has made himself a target of mob action by over 100m Nigerian youths.
“On 11th November 2022, INEC through Prof. Mahmood Yakubu assured Nigerians that the commission would transmit election results from the polling units real-time into the INEC Result Viewing (IRev) portal, but lo and behold Prof. Yakubu committed the worst electoral fraud in the history of Africa on 25th February, 2023 after a secret meeting he had with state RECs instructing them not to transmit results from the polling units; an intentional act to bypass INEC laws/guidelines and allotted massive figures from Ekiti, Kwara, Niger, Jigawa, Benue, Imo, Bauchi, Kaduna, Zamfara, Rivers and Borno to Bola Tinubu and hastily declared him winner of the presidential election.”