THE Campaign Manager of the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign in the February 25, 2023 election, Oseloka Obaze, has cautioned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against tampering with IRev, as it concerns the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
In a tweet on Saturday, July 1, 2023, Obaze said intelligence reaching the campaign office showed that INEC was trying to succumb to pressures to tinker with the results of some states, including the FCT, to enable the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to be in good standing.
He stated: “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 am., there is nothing to be taken for granted.”
Obaze said INEC and the ruling APC might 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 warned that it would be courting catastrophe for them to want to pour salt into an open wound inflicted on Nigeria’s electorate.
He reminded INEC that what it was allegedly trying to do was 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 it has long been eroded.
