THE Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council (LP-PCC) has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of massive rigging and falsification of election results across the country against its candidate Peter Obi.
The LP-PCC spokesman Kenneth Okonkwo made this allegations via his Twitter account on Sunday, February 26.
According to him, the results were rigged in favour of the ruling party, All Progressive Congress (APC).
He wrote: “There’s massive rigging and falsification of results in collation centres against Labour Party and in favour of the defeated criminal APC led by INEC officials. Please Obidients should pile pressure on this man for allowing the delay of uploading presidential election results to the INEC server.”
He also called on international bodies to put pressure on INEC to upload the results of the presidential election on its server.
“This is now the official face of electoral fraud in Nigeria. We should not wait for them to announce the stolen results before we act. Everyone should upload the results they have and be cross checking what INEC is uploading. The international community must put pressure on INEC to upload the presidential results now without delay to avoid unnecessary breakdown of law and order.”
Okonkwo proceed to cursing the attempt to rig the election against his Party’s presidential candidate Peter Obi, stating that painful death awaits whoever rigs the election.
“Whoever rigs this election against @PeterObi will die a painful death from the Almighty God and the time starts now. Just watch and see. @PeterObi defeated APC in the National Chairman polling unit, defeated APC in the DG of APC polling unit, defeated APC in Lagos and throughout Nigeria and someone in INEC is telling us nonsense. They will perish in most disastrous circumstances. This is one election they cannot steal by the grace of God,” he added.
Usman Mustapha is a solution journalist with International Centre for Investigative Reporting. You can easily reach him via: [email protected]. He tweets @UsmanMustapha_M
#Chris Otuguor, your comment was a masterpiece when I read it. I thought same way during the counting process. However, in our country, you know how things play. And that was how they eventually played out. After all the Billions of borrowed money spent, we ended up where we started, with one of the old cabal been selected. That was what Kenneth Okonkwo wanted to pre-empt. You can see clearly the moods of everyone in the country when they announced the “winner”. Which way Nigeria. #RiggedElection., #StolenMandateOf PeterObi.
#Kenneth Okonkwo, this kind of rhetoric does not help issues but only heat up the body polity in a negative way. Too early in the process. What if your Principal eventually wins? how would you reconcile this outburst before Nigerians?
Let the process take its course, there are laid down legal corridors enshrined in our Constitution for matters of this nature after all said and done. The legal system still could be trusted. Ask Deputy Senate President Ovie Omo-Agege and Chief Ighoyota Amori of the APC and PDP respectively, they will double down on this. In the end, may the God ordained persons that would fix our beloved nation win across the board. Things have to change.