*Warns INEC Not To Further Damage Its Already Battered Image
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Former 2nd National Vice President of the Nigerian Bar Association and the Chairman Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law (NBA-SPIDEL), Dr. Monday Onyekachi Ubani, has cautioned Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC), not to announce Abia state results that were procured under duress.
Ubani, made this remark on Monday, after the Commission announced that its team from Abuja was due in Abia on Tuesday to review results from Obingwa LGA and other some other areas of the state.
THENIGERIALAWYER, reported on Saturday, that there was disruption of the collation of results in the Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State and allegations of irregularities in the collation of results.
Reacting to the development, Ubani, said If anyone has told him that with the progress they have made with the new Electoral Act of 2022 that someone will contemplate forcing INEC’s officials to announce fictitious results that does not pass through BVAS accreditation, he will not believe it. But that is precisely what is happening in Abia presently at Obingwa Local Government Area in Abia State.
“Information at my disposal is that the EO of INEC in Obingwa was placed under severe threat to announce results that were not obtained in accordance with the Electoral Act in favour of a particular candidate in the gubernatorial race in the State.
“When he refused to accede to such demands, they forced his other colleagues to announce the mind boggling results to suit their whim and caprices.
“INEC is hereby advised and warned seriously not to further damage its already battered image by going ahead with announcing such results in the State that is clearly devoid of law and logic.
“On the streets and in homes, Abians are sounding it as a note of warning to INEC and the Nigerian institutions that have one role or the other to play in the electoral process, to reject electoral heist, terrorism and ensure that free, fair and equitable process is allowed to be employed to produce the new leadership of Abia in 2023.
“From 1999 till date, Abians and Abia have not been fortunate with leadership that meant well for the State.
“Abians are saying that anything short of a process that is free, fair and credible will be rejected out rightly and I am afraid that such outcome shall not be allowed to stand in the State and by extension in Nigeria.”
“ABIANS ARE TIRED with imposition of leadership that has no input from the people since this new Republic began, and echoing with one voice that “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH”.
“A word is enough for the wise!”
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