Calls INEC to sanction officers for sharp practices
From Jeff Amechi Agbodo, Onitsha
The Movement for Election of Nigeria President of Igbo Extraction (MENPIE) has appealed to Independent National Electoral Commission to ensure that the results they uploaded to their server reflected the results generated in various polling units.
The group noted that most of party agents, observers and voters were with the authentic results of elections in various polling units and were ready, willing and able to defend and protect their votes.
The National Convener of MENPIE Comrade Vincent Ezekwueme said that INEC should sanction with severe punishment any officer who uploaded results that is contrary to the one generated from the polling units.
The group reacted to claims and counterclaims by some political parties and their agents and delays by INEC in uploading the results as they promised prior to the commencement of the elections.
“We equally condemned and decried monumental disenfranchisement of the people of the South East during the election. Recall that in most of the polling units in the southeast electoral officials and materials arrived just a few hours to close of the voting period.
“It is an irrefutable truth that those who voted are less than those who did not vote. We wish to remind the electoral umpire of the need for them to be transparent, patriotic and unbiased in the discharge of their duties.
“According to Late Chief MKO Abiola that no justice no peace, any justice without peace is the peace of the graveyard. Pertinently Nigerians, global community are early looking forward to a transparent conclusion of the elections.
“INEC names should be engraved and etched their names in gold by putting machinery in motion towards ensuring that their officials both at state and local governments did not connive with politicians to subvert people’s will.
“They must prove the wrong assertion of Joseph Stalin that those who vote decide nothing, those who count the votes decide everything. It is of prime importance for the interest of justice, equity, morality and good conscience that INEC must decide the outcome to reflect the wishes and aspirations of the majority of Nigeria’s electorate.
“Nigeria’s new President-elect must be president of Nigeria, elected by Nigerians and for Nigerians, that will also own allegiance to the citizens.
“INEC should constitute men and women of impeccable integrity to unravel sabotage of elections in the South East in which more than fifty per cent of electorates were disenfranchised and steps taking to conduct supplementary elections in those areas,” Ezekwueme stated.