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INEC .IPAC@ Dagger's Drawn over the 2019 election Observer's Reports |
Global News: INEC, IPAC @ Dagger's Drawn, Trade Words on 2019 Elections Observer's Reports: Says"INEC Words that Observers of 2019 polls were Partisan, is Ingratuitous and Uncharitable"
By Dr. Clement Ivan/ Senior Political Analyst; National Peoples News: ISSN 1595-0549
INEC through the Chairperson of the INEC Elections Observation and Party Monitoring Committee Professor Antonia Simbine Okosi made a statement recently that some election observers of the 2019 polls were partisan. She made these statements in the PLAC public presentation of the new PLAC Compendium of the needed Alteration to the electoral Act held in Abuja a few days ago.
Many Members of IPAC -Inter-Party Advisory Council which is the prestigious association of National Chairmen of the registered 91 Political Parties that participated and fielded candidates in the election differ from this position of INEC which they view as unfortunate and a blatant show of arrogance, ingratitude and whence uncharitable.
This Position of IPAC- Inter-Party Advisory Council of Nigeria that is made up the creme de la cream of Nigerian intelligentsia, among whom includes, Professors, Doctorate degree holders, Lawyers, Chartered Accountant, Engineers and the most exclusive circle of intellectuals of the Nigerian Federation are perturbed by the lack of humility, decorum and diplomacy of INEC in relating with the Observers of the 2019 general elections which many of the observers have condemned as a sham of an election and their reports indicated that the 2019 election was the worst election in Nigeria History where Professor Mahmood Yakubu the Chairman of INEC and his team failed the Nation woefully. The 2019 elections according to the Reports of the Observers, were characterized by rigging, vote-buying and selling, violence, ballot boxes snatching and stuffing, election postponement and inconclusive elections, falsifications of results, underage voting, arson, death, ruins, shame, and grieves were the norms.
Reason would prevail that INEC takes the judgment of History and Providence in good faith and call for the total cancellation of the 2019 general elections but they are arrogantly being ungrateful to genuine observers that were man enough to tell them the bitter truth.
You will recall that a total of 159 election observers were accredited for the 2019 general election by INEC with 120 domestic observers; which boasted prestigious credible election observers as PLAC, YIAGA, etc all consolidated together in the Election Situation Room; and 39 foreign observers among whom include the prestigious election observation teams of the EU, IRI, USA, NDI, Russia, Canada, UK, etc and INEC is not funding any of these observers that deployed men and women of collectively 73,562 personnel to all the nooks and cranny of Nigeria during the 2019 election of which 2,306 were foreign observers who came to Nigeria to assist us to have a free, fair, credible election which Professor Mahmood Yakubu and his INEC team failed woefully.