Dr. Adolphus Wabara, former President of the Senate, has bemoaned the inability of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to upload the results of last Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections directly from the polling units contrary to its earlier assurances.
Wabara, who is now the Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), addressed newsmen in Umuahia, and described the elections as a ‘sham’ because of the way INEC mismanaged it despite the massive turnout of voters.
Wabara said the conduct of the INEC was shameful and had exposed Nigeria to mockery before the comity of nations.
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He insisted that if the unity and continued existence of the country was important to those responsible for what he called the broad-day rape and murder of the Nigeria democracy, the polls must be cancelled and a fresh election conducted.
The former Senate president said there is no way Nigerians would have reasonably voted for APC, considering all the sufferings of the ruling party these eight years.
“The indices were there before the election even to the blind that Nigerians wanted a genuine change. If the PDP or even the Labour Party had won, I’m not sure we would have this coldness that has enveloped the country. By now, there would have been celebrations all over the country.
“Nobody should make any pretense about it, Nigeria has not fared any better under the APC. Rather, what we saw was retrogression, frustration, killings, hunger, and everything negative.”
Wabara maintained: “It’s a sham! You can see from the international observers how they condemned what we called an election in the 21st century.
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“So, that thing has to be cancelled in the interest of Nigeria and the unity of the country. There is no hope again for the country. We have killed democracy in Nigeria!
“It was like in those days when people won an election at all cost and ask their opponents to go to court. But I thought we had passed that stage, and are now responsible.”
He noted that even no pre-election opinion poll results favoured the APC, adding that the election results were doctored to favour the ruling party.
According to Wabara: “Even the blind opinion poll didn’t have APC coming to take over. If this is allowed, Nigeria will not have a place in the international community. There won’t be any respect whatsoever for us again.”
Wabara said he was not sure if the judiciary would be courageous enough to correct the anomaly.
“Our democracy has died because I don’t have any hope in the judiciary. They are the same thing unless we have a bold judge who is prepared to lose his job the next day, but we don’t have them many.”