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AA, APP To LP: Your Call For Removal Of INEC Chairman Baseless, Unfortunate

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Action Peoples Party (APP) and Action Alliance (AA) have condemned the call for the resignation of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, by the Labour Party (LP).

APP and AA took a swipe at the Labour Party, describing the party’s call for Yakubu’s resignation through the Director General of the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign, Mr. Akin Osuntokun, as unjudicious.

Action Alliance in a statement issued on Thursday night by its National Chairman, Barr. Kenneth Udeze, accused the Labour Party of mud slinging the INEC boss having failed to establish its case at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.

Udeze noted that the Labour Party and its public facing organs are seeking to distract the public from the reality that their candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, did not win the 2023 presidential election and could not realistically have won it.

“Assuming without conceding, the elections were manipulated, the Labour Party can only prove its case using the instrumentality of the innovations promoted and defended by the INEC chairman. It beggars belief that while relying on innovations introduced by the INEC chairman, the party still castigates him and seeks to hound him.

“Without a doubt that INEC under the leadership of Mahmood has introduced the most far-reaching innovations to improve the electoral process in Nigeria,” he said.

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The Action Peoples Party in a statement issued by its Acting National Chairman, Barr. Uche Nnadi, said it is unfortunate that INEC has become an easily available punching bag at whom the political class targets to manipulate the system or at whom the political class targets its angst.

He asked the Labour Party to await the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal decision and refrain from needlessly stirring up the Nigerian public against an outstanding public servant because of their easily predicted loss at the election.

“It is on record that the political class stood by while INEC facilities were targeted and attacked in the build-up to the elections. For instance, INEC facilities in the South-East were constantly attacked and equipment destroyed with little or no comments from people such as Mr. Osuntokun.

“We will be the first to admit that there were a few cases where politicians induced INEC staff to manipulate the process. However, it is on record that where these cases have been established, the Commission has demonstrated a commitment to prosecuting the perpetrators of these acts,” he said.

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