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Election Rigging: Intersociety Drags Over 40 INEC Officials, Four Governors To US, EU, Demands Visa Ban

The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), has called on the United States of America, United Kingdom and European countries to impose visa ban on the Chairman of Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, and other 43 top INEC staff for allegedly rigging last Saturday's presidential and National Assembly elections in the country.

The group also called for visa ban on four state governors; Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State, Hope Uzodinma of Imo State and David Umahi of Ebonyi State.

The group made the call in petition to 31 key foreign missions in Nigeria, representing the world’s best and most powerful democracies. The missions the petition was addressed to include: Head of the EU Delegation to Nigeria/ECOWAS and Ambassadors or High Commissioners of US, UK, Canada, , , State of Israel, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, Scotland, Ireland, Spain, Czech, Portugal, Norway, Finland, Austria, Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Greece, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Australia, the Vatican, South Korea, Brazil and Mexico.

In the letter which SaharaReporters obtained on Thursday, dated Wednesday, 1st March 2023, Intersociety alleged that 44 top INEC officials named in the petition were vicariously or directly involved in the INEC in-house rigging of the 2023 Presidential which the group described as antithetic to democracy.

According to the petition, the INEC official accused of the rigging are - "Prof Mahmood Yakubu, INEC’s National Chairman,14 past and serving National Commissioners which include: Air Vice Marshal Ahmed Mua’zu (retd) (Gombe), Mrs May Agbamuche-Mbu (Delta), Dr Adekunle Ladipo Ogunmola (Oyo), Mallam Mohammed Kudu Haruna (Kano), Ukegbu Nnamdi (Abia), Major Gen Abubakar Alkali (retd) (Adamawa), Rhoda Gumus (Bayelsa), Sam Olumekun (Ondo), Barr Festus Okoye (Anambra), Kunle Ajayi (Ekiti), Muhammad Kallah (Borno), Dr Baba Bila (North-East), Prof Sani Adam (North-Central) and Prof Abdullahi Abdu (North-West)."

Also accused and demanded to be slammed visa ban are 37 past and serving 37 State Resident Electoral Commissioners. They are "Ibrahim Abdullahi (Adamawa State), Obo Effanga (Cross Rivers), Agboke Olaleke (Ogun), Prof Sam Egwu (Kogi), Onyeka Ugochi (Imo), Muhammad Bashir (Sokoto), Prof Ayobami Salami (Oyo), Olaniyi Ijalaye (Ondo), Muhammed Nura (Yobe), Zango Abdu (Katsina), Dr. Elizabeth Agwu (Ebonyi), Agundu Tarsoo (Benue), Yomere Onitsemlebi (Delta), Prof Yahaya Ibrahim (Kaduna), Nura Ali (Kano), Agu Uchenna (Enugu), Ahmed Garki (FCT), Hudu Yunusa (Bauchi), Prof Uzochukwu Chijoke (Anambra).

Others are "Abdulganiyu Raji (Oyo), Risikuwa Shehu (Sokoto), Bello Mahmud (Zamfara), Nentawe Yilwada (Plateau),Umar Ibrahim (Taraba), Mustapha Zubairu (Niger), Asmau Maikudi (Katsina), James Apam (Benue), Godswill Obioma (Abia), Olusegun Agbaje (Lagos), Dr. Cyril Omorogbe (Edo State), Baba Yusuf (Borno), Dr. Uthman Ajidagba (Kwara), Yahaya Bello (Nasarawa), Dr Emmanuel Hart (Rivers), Mohammed Ibrahim (Gombe), Mahmuda Isah (Kebbi) and Dr. Adediran Rahmon Tella (Osun). Two key Directors of INEC: Engineer Paul Omokere (Director of ICT) and Dr. Lawrence Bayode (Deputy Director of ICT) are among those blacklisted and petitioned against."

Intersociety stated, "We humbly requested to slam visa ban and other inter-country entry restrictions and block international engagements and recognitions in their names particularly those involving the National Chairman of INEC (Prof Mahmood Yakubu), the National Commissioner for Voter Education who doubles as National Commissioner for Anambra, Imo and Enugu, Mr Festus Okoye."

The civil rights organisation noted that the four governors of Rivers, Imo, Kaduna and Ebonyi States were directly involved in the widespread voter suppression and brutal subversion of the sacred electoral wishes of Nigerians during the INEC in-house brutally rigged Feb 25, 2023 Presidential Election.

In the petition signed by principal officers - Emeka Umeagbalasi, Chinwe Umeche, Obianuju Joy and Chidinma Udegbunam, Intersociety made seven demands:

"Slam visa sanctions and other international travel, engagement and recognition restrictions on the serving Gov of Imo State and office immunity losing (outgoing) Govs of Rivers, Kaduna and Ebonyi States. Included in the list is Gov Yahaya Bello of Kogi State who will also be losing office immunity on 29th May 2023

"Repatriate all their stashed away material and human deposits and monetary valuable services (if any) traced and linked to the 44 top INEC officials and strongly suspected office atrocity perpetrator Govs named.

"Ensure that all of their nuclear families living or holidaying or studying anywhere in the named respected countries and their assets and liabilities are speedily repatriated back to Nigeria and permanently embargoed from finding their way back to the respected countries.

"Particularly, Prof Mahmood Yakubu and Festus Okoye Esquire should be stripped of international forums and opportunities to speak emptily and noisily and stop from receiving undue international attentions and recognitions and permanently barred from traveling to any of the 31 respected Democratic countries named including their nuclear family .

"Holistically review future funding and international democracy funds to INEC and its rubberstamping CSOs including scholarships and sponsorship of their international visitations and exchange programs and speech deliveries.

"Downward review of funding of Election Day monitoring and upward review of ing independent CSOs’ critical oversight on INEC especially during Continuous Voters’ Registration and Distribution of Permanent Voters’ Cards to discourage disenfranchisement and enhance enfranchisement

"Mount sufficient pressure and tying future democracy funding to INEC on full digitalization of voting process or dualization of voting in the country or any part thereof to include electronic PVC and manual PVC voting; whereby ed voters can vote from their homes or choose to vote physically at polling units with their votes count."

https://saharareporters.com/2023/03/02/election-rigging-intersociety-drags-over-40-inec-officials-four-governors-us-eu-demands

God bless the president elect
God bless Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu
God bless our dear nation Nigeria
God bless Nigerians
God bless APC ers
God bless everyone that voted APC
God bless me
God bless you
God bless nairaland s

They are wasting their time

The process was a shame

You will be shamed

PandoraObi:
They are wasting their time

SatanKeepOff:
You will be shamed

That is for you your family and your generations

Intersociety is a Biafran CSO. They have been working for Peter Obi the shameless crying loser since he was Anambara governor.

Ban tinubu
Deport all oluomo family
Deport all wike children
Deport and ban all apc and their family
Let them remain here in Nigeria and enjoy the evil they are planning for those here

Mahmood Yakubu must defend that scam he read to over 200 million people.

Stolen mandate must be returned.

Na USA go fit help us now abi?
Mumum people everwhere

Stolen Mandate.. The whole world knows.

Zionmdde:
Ban tinubu
Deport all oluomo family
Deport all wike children
Deport and ban all apc and their family
Let them remain here in Nigeria and enjoy the evil they are planning for those here

The list is not yet complete. Wait till after the Governorship election so that you can add more names to your petition.
You guys will never forget March 11.

We will reclaim our mandate

All hope isn't loss


Our mandate shall be reclaim insha Allah



Vote Labour Party in all gubernatorial polls

God bless my father His excellency President Peter Obi

So US and EU is now the supreme Court of Nigeria

Fools...yiu think they are not happy Jagaban won

Wounded lions everywhere

It's a shame. I have never seen any election conducted in the world and they bring the issue to Nigeria.
We keep embarrassing ourselves! If you're not satisfy with the election result, go to court and stop acting like babies

We need peace, but peac is never the absence of war but the presence of justice and fairplay.

It not easy to rig election in this dynamic society of ours in Technological innovations and go scot free.

A Kenyan threw a jibe at us lately that their election portal is even open for the world to see. The world is laughing hard at us. Not a good thing to be a Nigerian at the moment.

Nigeria Nigeria Nigeria which way to go.

This present government is a monumental failure cum disaster. How I wish I can find my way out of this country for good.

Sore losers

U play divisive politics, it backfired right in front u...
U came up with 94% and 95% in ur region, u dey shout rig. no be lie sha, na confession u wan make, the whole world need to hear how 94% and 95% take be

Me sef gats hear am

Bunch of sore Losers..

Why didn't they include all the ones in south east.

How can a party contesting for presidential elections don't have a situation room , you don't have all the required polling agent's, you campaigned only in southern borno, southern Kaduna, christian dominated Kano .

There are levels to this thing, you claimed APC don't have 25percent in lagos , but all it's senators won...

Somebody should just make it make sense.. I need logical explanations

Hmm, it's well

Wq

Labouring in vain continues just as we predicted before the elections

Waste of time

It's well

The US and the EU are now the rulers of Nigeria?
Why are these desperadoes shaming Nigerians.

PandoraObi:
They are wasting their time

Are you for real?

The thing shock dem well well