2023 general elections were fraudulent – Comrade Iche By Ifeoma Ikem

Comrade Saviour Iche, a human rights activist and the Ambassador for Peace and Enlightenment Foundation on Sunday called for the arrest and investigation of the INEC chairman Prof Mahmood Yakubu to explain how N365b Naira given to him for the 2023 general election was spent.

Iche who made the call while addressing newsmen in Lagos, described 2023 general elections as fraudulent noting that the INEC Chairman and his team were given enough time and every single facility needed for the elections.

According to him, Ninty eight percent of Nigerians gave INEC almost 100% trust because of his words and promises.

“He went to Chattan house in London to explain the modalities, rules and regulations on how the 2023 elections will be conducted.

“When the electoral act was signed by President Mohammadu Buhari, Nigerians were happy and at peace that we were going to get it right as being done in other countries”.

He said that INEC spent so much money, gave hope to Nigerias and Nigerians trooped out to exercise their civic rights.

“It was only in this election period that Nigerians were even paying money to get their PVCs, even those who have never voted before in their life time did because they believed that the system was going to be different without knowing it was going to be fraudulent.

“Even some in diaspora were around to get their PVC so as to enable them exercise their civic rights, they all went to their polling units, expecting INEC to do what they promised to do but to the shock of everyone the reverse was the case”, he added.

Iche regrettably noted that the whole world is making mockery of Nigeria of which they were all eager to see how INEC would conduct a free, fair and credible election.

“Nigeria could have entered into the world book of record and they could have been a reference to other countries but INEC failed everyone.

“Even the presiding officers responsible for conducting elections had to cry out that the results were manipulated.

“Even to the point where some state were having the same figures from different parties”.

He, therefore, demand as an ambassador for peace and human group for EFCC to investigate and arrest the INEC umpire immediately.

“INEC must give us an account on how they spent the money given to them, if they knew they were not going to conduct credible elections they should have saved us from the embarrassment.

” Why did they allow Nigerians to suffer in getting their PVC and also going to queue up to cast their votes, why did they waste our time, why did they go to the world to make mockery of Nigeria, why take Nigeria for a ride?

“They have made mockery of the  giant of Africa, if the elections were credible enough the people that are going to court now would not have gone there.

“Nigerians have not recovered from the 2023 general election, the same elections that subjected us to buying money in our own country, same election that made CBN governor and president of the country to divert money so as to prevent vote buying and yet it turned out to be what we are still suffering till now and it’s killing us.

In his words, if they have shared this money to all and placed whomever they wished as the president it would have been better at least we will know that we are enjoying the money allocated instead of this total waste.

“We are suffering for what we don’t know of, even the returning officers came out openly to say that the INEC chairman forced them to forge results.

“The relevant agencies who are supposed to act on these confessions kept silent and it’s like there maybe a conspiracy.

“Now, the INEC chairman, Mahmood is left to go scout free, we can’t take these agencies serious because this is not what Mahmood promised us.