PRESS RELEASE
2023 NIGERIA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
-AN APPEAL FOR CAUTION AND RECTIFICATION
“Let me appeal to the Chairman of INEC, if his hands are clean,
to save Nigeria from the looming danger and disaster which is just waiting to happen. If the Chairman can postpone elections four days to
the election, he can do everything to rectify the errors of the last two
days no BVAS, no result to be acceptable; and no upload through
Server, no result to be acceptable.
Where BVAS and Servers have been manipulated or rendered inactive,
such results must be declared void and inadmissible for election
declaration. Chairman INEC, I have thought that you would use this
opportunity to mend your reputation and character for posterity.
Your Excellency, President Buhari Muhammadu, tension is building up
and please let all elections that do not pass the credibility and
transparency test be cancelled and be brought back with areas where
elections were disrupted for next Saturday, March 4, 2023, and BVAS”
Nigerian Brothers and Sisters, greetings to you all.
I am constrained to speak at this point.
I crave the indulgence of the President of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria, His Excellency General Muhammadu Buhari, to make this
statement because I have had opportunity to keep him aware of what I
know is happening and the danger looming ahead. On many occasions
in the past, I have not hesitated to point out lacuna in the action of the
President and his government. But as far as the election issues are
concerned, the President has proved beyond reasonable doubt that he
will want to leave a legacy of free, fair, transparent and credible
elections.
Until last Saturday night, February 25, 2023, the good and noble plan
and preparation for the elections seemed to be going well. For the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), a lot of money was
spent to introduce Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS), and the
Server for immediate transmission of results from polling units. It is no
secret that INEC officials, at operational level, have been allegedly
compromised to make what should have worked not to work and to
revert to manual transmission of results which is manipulated and the
results doctored. The Chairman of INEC may claim ignorance but he
cannot fold his hands and do nothing when he knows that election
process has been corrupted and most of the results that are brought
outside BVAS and Server are not true reflection of the will of Nigerians
who have made their individual choice. At this stage, we do not need
wittingly or unwittingly to set this country on fire with the greed,
irresponsibility and unpatriotic act of those who allegedly gave money
to INEC officials for perversion and those who collected the blood
money. Let me appeal to the Chairman of INEC, if his hands are clean,
to save Nigeria from the looming danger and disaster which is just waiting to happen. If the Chairman can postpone elections four days to
the election, he can do everything to rectify the errors of the last two
days no BVAS, no result to be acceptable; and no upload through
Server, no result to be acceptable.
Where BVAS and Servers have been manipulated or rendered inactive,
such results must be declared void and inadmissible for election
declaration. Chairman INEC, I have thought that you would use this
opportunity to mend your reputation and character for posterity.
Your Excellency, President Buhari Muhammadu, tension is building up
and please let all elections that do not pass the credibility and
transparency test be cancelled and be brought back with areas where
elections were disrupted for next Saturday, March 4, 2023, and BVAS
and Server officials be changed. To know which stations or polling units
were manipulated, let a Committee of INEC staff and representatives of
the four major political parties with the Chairman of Nigerian Bar
Association look into what must be done to have hitch-free elections
next Saturday. Mr. President, may your plan and hope for leaving a
legacy of free, fair, transparent and credible election be realised. Mr.
President, please don’t let anybody say to you that it does not matter or
it is the problem of INEC. On no account should you be seen as part of
the collusion or compromise. When the die is cast, it will be your
problem and that of the nation. The Chairman of INEC may sneak out
of the country or go back to his ivory tower.
Your Excellency, thank you for hearing me out.
Compatriot Nigerians, please exercise patience until the wrong is
righted. I strongly believe that nobody will toy with the future and fortune
of Nigeria at this juncture.
Long live Nigeria in peace, security, stability and in the hope for greater future.
OLUSEGUN OBASANJO
February 27, 2023
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