Ohanaeze youths strongly condemn Obasanjo’s recent remarks about the INEC boss. Discover the details of their reaction.
Olusegun Obasanjo, the former president, has come under fire from the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide for remarks he made regarding the recent elections in Nigeria.
The organization also condemned the former president’s comments directed against Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the head of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
According to Peoplesmind, the former president called the 2023 general elections a farce and demanded that INEC be led by new, trustworthy individuals with brief terms in order to thwart corruption and restore confidence during the Chinua Achebe Leadership Forum at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Additionally, he charged that the electoral board was purposefully undermining the 2023 general election process.
We urgently need to ensure that the INEC chairperson and his or her team are adequately screened. The screening process ought to produce impartial, unbiased actors with stellar reputations.
“To stop unwanted political interference and corruption and restore voters’ faith in the electoral institutions, Nigeria must make sure that new, credible INEC leadership is appointed at the federal, state, local government, and municipal—city, town, and village levels—with brief tenures.
“Before 2023, the BVAS and IReV were hailed as technological innovations that could improve our election results’ accuracy and transparency, eradicate the possibility of election tampering, and increase public confidence in election results,” Obasanjo stated.
In response, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, National President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, charged that the former president had set the groundwork for a defective electoral system in the nation.
In a statement, Okwu claimed that during the previous president’s administration, election results were declared while Nigerian voters were still waiting in line to cast their ballots.
“Results were written in the homes of lawmakers and the government. Under Obasanjo’s leadership, the phrase “go to court” gained popularity, meaning that those who were sobbing were supposed to go in court when INEC announced the winner, which was all that counted.
It’s no surprise that the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, a man of integrity, bemoaned the serious flaws in the election that put him in office. “Obasanjo was president when the aforementioned election took place,” Okwu stated.
He asserts that during his tenure, Obasanjo failed to implement any significant election changes.
Peoplesmind
