Bola Tinubu, Nigeria's President-elect.
A Civil Society group, the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) says it
has severed ties with Nigeria's President-elect, Bola Tinubu for allegedly taking part in a fraudulent election, the Daily Sun reports.
In a statement signed by NADECO Executive Director, Lloyd Ukwu and General Counsel, W. Bruce DelValle, the group said, “NADECO and Tinubu fought Gen Sani Abacha as the military dictator who scuttled the will of the Nigerian people in 1993 June 12 elections.
"Ironically, exactly 30 years later, in 2023, NADECO is fighting the same species of dictatorship but only this time a much more dangerous civilian dictatorship – a kleptocracy- mostly perpetuated by one of those who fought Abacha then.
"NADECO will not look the other way simply because the fraud was perpetrated by one of its founding members.
"NADECO hereby, as a first step, formally severs its relationship with Bola Ahmed Tinubu as a former founding member of NADECO (USA) for his participation in the worst electoral fraud in Nigeria’s recent history."
The Civil Society group also called on the international community to support the setting up of a team of renowned technical experts to examine and analyze INEC servers and BVAS used in Nigeria's 2023 presidential election.
NADECO said that part of the team's duty would be to extract the original votes cast for each of the candidates in that election to determine the true winner.
“NADECO demands that INEC draw back its curtains to let the full light of truth prove the transparency and veracity of the 2023 electoral processes.
" It is without question that nearly all the electoral reforms implemented to safeguard the 2023 Nigerian elections have been savaged by INEC and scattered to the winds of tyranny.
" It is beyond debate that initial investigation into the 2023 Nigerian presidential elections inexorably discloses that Nigeria’s most recent election is the opposite of transparency, fairness, and electoral integrity.
" This election was polluted by blatant bribery and widespread corruption – even INEC itself has 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.”
NADECO further stated that INEC"s failure to transmit the results of the presidential election in real time was fraudulent and an attempt to disenfranchise Nigerians.
“NADECO maintains that the 2023 presidential election is an attempt to disenfranchise the Nigerian people through the four horsemen of democracy’s doom – Bribery, voter intimidation, insecurity, and vote rigging, all harnessed to skew the results of the 2023 presidential election.
" INEC’s action constitutes negligence per se and electoral fraud, as it violated the very statutory provisions and guidelines that are designed to protect against the type of fraud caused by its failure to transmit the results in real-time.
"The people of Nigeria are supposed to be the ones the statute is designed to protect, instead, they have found themselves at the receiving end of the resulting gross injustice.”
While urging the United States and other countries to impose an immediate visa ban on the INEC chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, NADECO advised Nigerians and the judiciary to work together to achieve global condemnation and absolute rejection of what it described as “the hasty, hollow, and illegitimate result declared by INEC.”
The civil society group also called on the United States and other countries to impose an immediate visa ban on the INEC chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu.
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