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Magnus Eze and Raphael Ede, Enugu
Ohanaeze Ndigbo has warned that there would be consequences if the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) manipulate the results of the presidential election in the South East.
President General of the group, Chief Nnia Nwodo, in a statement, on Sunday, decried alleged attempts by some influential individuals in the South East to mutilate and change results of the presidential election.
Nwodo alleged that some local governments and INEC officials were being coerced and enticed to change collated figures of the election to enable the presidential candidate to score up to the mandatory twenty-five percent in the States.
“The results of the elections in the states in the South-East are already in the public domain and, any attempt to falsify them would be vehemently resisted by the people.”
He called on international and local observers to take note and warned the intending perpetrators to desist “from this perfidious act capable of inciting violence in an otherwise peaceful exercise in the zone.”
In a related development, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has described as ominous, President Muhammadu Buhari’s silence when the lives of over four million Igbo living in Lagos were under threat.
They also said the silence of Lagos State Governor, Akinwumi Ambode, Chairman, South East Governors’ Forum and Governor of Ebonyi State, Chief David Umahi as well as the Oba of Lagos, Rilwanu Akiolu I, was worrisome.
Nwodo, in a statement in Enugu, however, applauded the Pan-Yoruba organisation, Afenifere, for its useful and timely condemnation of the happenings.
“Igbo in Lagos are being threatened for exercising their civic rights to vote. This (yesterday) morning, they were stopped from opening their market stalls in Oshodi. The acting Inspector General of Police refused to pick three calls I made to him. The Oba of Lagos remains quiet. The Governor of Lagos State makes no broadcast. The safety of more than four million Igbo living in Lagos seems to be of no concern to him…”
