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Blasts INEC Chairman, Professor Yakubu, Says No Election But Selection
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The International Communities who observed the fraudulent election have started sending congratulatory messages to the President Elect. What’s their own as long as “the Plantation Is growing.”
Despite the reported threats by other contestants to legally protest the declaration of the All Progressives Congress, APC candidates, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu winner of the Saturday, February 25 presidential election, Omoyele Sowore, candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC has declined calls to seek redress in court.
“I don’t believe in Nigeria’s court. Which court do people want me to seek redress? Is it the one that made Hope Uzodima governor of Imo state?” he queries.
The human rights activist cum politician who described the Saturday, February 25 presidential election as a political charade that falls short of the standard of election, noted in dismay that even the foreign observers who witnessed the shananigans on the ill fated day have started congratulating Tinubu for winning a fraudulent election.
“I’m ashamed of the members of the international community who were here to monitor the fraudulent election and saw all the nonsense that happened that day. The vote buying, ballot box snatching, rigging, killing, intimidation and unleashed violence on innocent voters. Yet, they have sent congratulatory messages to the President Elect. What’s their own as long as the plantation is growing,” he said.
The politician who described the Labour Party, LP presidential candidate Peter Obi and his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP counterpart, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as one of a kind, said he cannot join forces with them in court to reclaim his mandate.
He alleged that both Atiku and Obi can not be extricated from the drama which played out on the election day.
Sowore recalled with nostalgia that what happened on Saturday, February 25 was selection and not election as party Agents in collaboration with corrupt officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC were arbitrarily apportioning figures to a presidential candidate.
“For me, I think election never took place but selection. It falls short of what could be classified as election. The BVAs failed to work, and we witnessed manual compilation of results. This is contrary to the Electoral Act we fought so hard to amend,” he said.
The AAC presidential candidate disclosed that he earlier warned that the BVAs were not full proof as the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu made Nigerians to believe.
“I went to the National Assembly to express my concerns against the BVAs but I was ignored. Today, I have been proven right,” Sowore said.
He further declared that the election was not free, fair, transparent and credible but was rather fraught with unbridled irregularities that marred the entire process.
