Former Deputy National Publicity
Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Timi Frank, has called
on the governments of the United Kingdom and the United State of America (USA)
to hold President Muhammadu Buhari and the Chairman of the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) responsible if the coming elections are rigged.
According to Frank, activities of
the security agencies, especially the Nigeria Police Force should also be
closely monitored during the elections.
In a statement he signed on
Friday, Frank, who commended the governments of UK and US for their plans to place
a ban on anybody found guilty of rigging or causing violence during the
elections also called on other nations of the world to toe the path of the duo
so as to totally reject
Frank described the development
as a good move, adding that “some politicians and their families have always
consider such countries as save heavens after robbing the voters not only their
votes but their lives.”
Frank said that the coming
elections can only be rigged if the President, INEC chairman and security
agents allow it.
He also said that INEC boss has
clearly displayed his partisanship by the appointment of Amina Zakari, who is a
relative to the presidential candidate of APC, as INEC’s head of Collation.
“In a case where the INEC
chairman sneaked into the presidential villa to take order as we have revealed
in the past, such body can not be neutral and such INEC boss has lost all his
integrity, if any to conduct a free and fair election.
“In 2015, the then INEC boss
refused to succumb to the dictates of the ruling government and that’s why
opposition party was able to take over the government at center and in many
states but we can not say the same of the current leadership of INEC.
“One of the examples is the
public outcry against the INEC imposed guideline that allows rigging and seems
to favour the ruling party against others but the INEC boss still went ahead to
approve.”
Frank called on the UK and US not
to limit its ban on the riggers alone but to freeze their bank accounts,
property and deport all their family members in the countries to serve as a
lesson to others.
The former APC spokesman also
called on the two countries to start the ban on the people in the presidency
who are trying to remove the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen
illegally “to pave way for another CJN who will easily dance to their dictates
should the APC lose the coming election.”
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