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US Report on the 2019 Elections discredits the conduct of the 2019 General Election conducted by Professor Mahmood Yakubu's INEC |
Finally Exposed: US Report on 2019 Elections: How Prof. Mahmood Yakubu’s
INEC Conducted the Worst Elections in Nigerian History: Focus on the US, EU,
UN, Yiaga, IRI, NDI, and Civil Societies Situation Room Reports and Other Matters Arising.
By Professor Clifford Ukonu: Senior Political Editor: National Peoples News:ISSN:1595-0549
Professor Mahmood Yakubu has allegedly messed up INEC, the
Nigerian Independent Electoral Commission and has failed woefully in all the
elections he had conducted since he became the Chairman of INEC in 2016.
All
the elections he conducted were allegedly characterized with widespread rigging,
violence, vote-buying, and selling, ballot boxes snatching and stuffing, blatant
falsification of results, compromised and corrupt election officers, underage
voting, intimidation of voters by security agencies, killing, death, ruins,
arson, grieves, and shame. Anything that can go wrong with any election had gone
wrong with Professor Mahmood Yakubu’s INEC Conducted elections that had made
the electorates of Nigeria and the international community to condemn the
conducts and results of all these elections and in particular the 2019 general elections as not credible, nor fair nor free
nor tenable to be used to adjudge those who must rule and govern the polity.
To corroborate these abysmal failures of Professor Mahmood
Yakubu’s INEC was the Report of The United State Department of State on the
conduct of the 2019 elections released on Wednesday the 12th of
March 2020, which indicted and condemn with strong words the conducts of the
2019 general elections with a conclusion that the failed APC government in
power had coerced INEC and the electorate using the security Agencies to muscle
the elections and the results of the elections in favor of the ruling APC party.
The US Report also indicted the APC government to have compromised the Judiciary
to favor the ruling failed APC party in the numerous controversial court cases
that the failed elections generated. This implies that the results are not the
true reflection of the vote cast and whence the election is not free, fair nor
credible and cannot be used to adjudge who won or lost in the election. At best,
a sham that should be consigned to the dustbins of history as another wasted
opportunity in the affairs of men of subsequent Creation.
The most diabolical aspects of the sophistry of Professor Mahmood Yakubu's INEC is the affront of using the results of these condemned, shameful elections as the yardstick to measure the strength and weaknesses of political parties for de-registration; and illegally, unconstitutionally INEC and Professor Mahmood Yakubu on the 6th of February 2020 went ahead to violate the constitutional rights of 74 political parties in Nigeria using this discredited results on the 2019 elections to de-register these parties despite the fact that a pending case on the said matter is in the Federal Hgh court since May 2019.
The incorruptible Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Federal High Court, Abuja in her rulings of the 17th February 2020 stopped INEC in a permanent interlocutory injunction from deregistering any political parties of the Nigerian Federation forever. A remarkable Godly guided Justice of the Living God. But till today INEC and Professor Mahmood Yakubu have disobeyed the Court Orders asking him to reinstate back the delisted parties.
Earlier on the EU-European Union, UN, Yiaga, IRI, NDI and the
Nigerian Civil Society situation room
which is a coalition of many prestigious influential civil right
and elections monitoring team from across Nigeria and the entire globe had
condemned the results of the 2019 general election as a travesty and untenable
to intelligence.
Reason would prevail that the entire election be canceled,
INEC to be overhauled and replaced with more competent hands addressed to
conduct fresh credible elections that would reflect the true wishes of the
peoples of Nigeria.