FCT, Abuja – The National Peace Committee (NPC) led by a former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, has opened up on how it was pressurized to get the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel the 2023 Presidential election.
The committee said criticisms and counter-criticisms with a flurry of phone calls and the need to call INEC to order.
The Peace Committee said leaders of the group were flooded with requests for intervention, inundated with calls, and petitions demanding its intervention to either halt the collation of the results or cancel the election.
This was disclosed when it presented to the public its 106-page report of the 2023 General Elections in Abuja on Friday, August 16.
As reported by Vanguard, some behind-the-scenes manoeuvres were from partisans and other unnamed elements.
A group tackled INEC over the conclusion of the 2023 presidential election, demanding clarification on the results announced.
The Centre for Collaborative Investigative Journalism queried INEC over the results broadcasted live and those reported in official documents, while also citing significant discrepancies in polling unit cancellations.
The chief press secretary to the INEC chairman, Rotimi Oyekanmi, responded to the group’s claims in a statement.
Source: TimesNow.com.ng
