Buhari’s Vow Of Free, Fair Elections Under Threat – Ugochinyere

The Peoples Democratic Party( PDP) House of Representative candidate for Ideato north and south constituency, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere has said President Muhammadu Buhari legacy of credible elections is under threat.

He disclosed this on Wednesday at a World Press Conference on the state of the nation, the attacks on his person and country home, killings of innocent people, and destruction/ bombing of his home, and the need for all concerned to have all hands on deck to ensure peaceful, acceptable, inclusive, free and fair general elections in Abuja.

According to him, the insecurity in Imo and other states may affect the credibility of the elections.

He said “let me now call on President Muhammadu Buhari to note that his promise to leave a legacy of free, fair and credible election is under threat.

“That legacy can only be achieved under an atmosphere of peace and security. Encourage the security agencies to do more.

Ugochinyere who is also the spokesman of the coalition of United Political parties( CUPP) said for the elections to be free and fair, the president must unravel those behind the voter registration compromise.

He said if the perpetrators are allowed to continue to walk free, they are still plotting to undermine the process and this is capable of throwing our country into civil unrest if not well managed.

He said, “While we appreciate Mr. President for the BVAS and all other initiatives so far to make our elections free and fair, we must ask Mr. President to immediately demand for the investigation report of those who compromised the voter registration process now popularly called Omuma Magic.”

“Mr. President ask the security agencies to unravel how these people intended to use the fake names and photographs they loaded into the voters register to get accredited and vote.

“This answer will unravel a lot of things and safeguard our election.This is part of the reason they bombed us and wants to kill me.

“Mr. President, we say this because we have intelligence that these people have assurances that they will have accreditation numbers pre-loaded for them.

“Though Nigerians have heard from Prof. Mahmood Yakubu that the BVAS is foolproof and cannot be hacked, and we believe and trust him, these people hold the strong belief they have already found a way around it.

“We do not think the country should relax until Election Day only to find out that the evil people have succeeded. Please we call for investigations now. Find them now before it is too late.

“Find them now, Mr. President before they throw the country into crisis. We ask, who are those INEC says are trying to hack the INEC server and other platforms? It is this same people; hence we need to make hay while the sun shines.

He further explained that “we must all guard our polling units. Ensure nobody takes away the BVAS especially between the hours of 11am to 4 pm.

“Protect all electoral staff and ensure nobody carries them away. The results must be a reflection of the will of the people. We have heard how they intend to attack polling units to take away bvas

“And use accredited figures to write and upload fake results, we have heard how they intend to attempt to influence posting of criminal elements as adhoc staff and we will expose the names in coming days as we have some of them.

“We have heard those they training to under Ratec work, we have heard how they plan to attack areas of strength of their opponents,  we have heard how they have marked polling units with high voting strength they want to use to subvert the will of the people, we have heard how they want to arrest leaders of other parties night before election with trumped-up charges etc All these will be discussed live in the days ahead as today will not contain the new informations we have.

“Citizens vigilance is key to stopping these electoral thieves and we must start now to mobilise ourselves. If you can spend days on fuel queues, then we can and we should spend just one day at the polling unit to ensure the right thing is done and that our votes count,” he said .