The campaign manager of Obi-Datti presidential campaign in the February 25, 2023, election, Mr. Oseloka H. Obaze, has warned INEC against tampering with IRev as it concerns the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
In a tweet yesterday, Mr. Obaze said reports reaching the campaign office shows that INEC was trying to yield to pressure to tinker with the results of some states including the FCT to enable the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) to be in good standing.
“According to our source, INEC is tampering with the machines used in the election to adjust FCT results to give the APC candidate the much-needed 25%, which he did not get as per the initial INEC declaration and for which he is being challenged at the Presidential Election Tribunal.
“It’s not clear how the electoral commission can brazenly carry out such bizarre action but given the abracadabra they did to announce the APC candidate winner by 4 a.m., there is nothing to be taken for granted,” he said.
Obaze warned that INEC and the ruling APC may be taking the adherence to the rule of law and due process disposition of Nigerians in general and the Obidient Movement in particular for granted, but that it would be courting catastrophe for them to want to “pour salt into an open wound” inflicted on the electorate.
He reminded INEC that what they are trying to do is tantamount to raising a dead horse and that whether the reports were fake or real, the commission should know the level of public confidence in them had long been eroded.
