Protesters demand fresh polls, sack of INEC chair
Fresh protests rocked the nation’s capital, Abuja, over the just concluded elections, with protesters kicking against the May 29 inauguration of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The protesters demanded the invocation of an Interim National Government, ING, to conduct a fresh election.
The angry Nigerians, who protested under the aegis of National Youth League for the Defence of Democracy, NYLDD demanded for two things .
Addressing journalists at the Unity Fountain where the protest took off en route the appeal court, one of the leaders of the group, Dr Moses Paul said;
“We are citizens of Nigeria, lovers of Nigeria, standing on the path of our constitution and citizens’ rights. We are here particularly to address the greatest crime that has happened in the history of the world and in Nigeria. People were burnt in Kano, people were shot in Rivers, we have seen the greatest inhumanity happen in Lagos State in the course of this election.”
Protest rocks the city of Abuja.
He went further to say that they have two demands. In his words;
“Two demands we are making are: we are asking the President of this country to immediately arrest and prosecute the chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, who has committed the greatest fraud in the history of humanity. We need him arrested and prosecuted”.
“Our number two demand is that we are asking that an interim government be put in place. We are saying that, because we do not want President Muhammadu Buhari to continue, his tenure is ending, so as a father he should put in place an interim government that will now appoint another INEC chairman who will conduct a free and credible election and produce a befitting president for our country’’.
When they were asked to provide other options if the two demands were not met, one of the co-conveners, Anngu Orngu, said they were harmless Nigerians who would use every other civil and lawful means to make sure the demands put forward were met.
In Anngu Orngu words;
“We are here as frustrated Nigerians and the fundamental rights of Nigerians have been trampled upon by Mahmood Yakubu-led INEC and we are here calling for his immediate resignation. We have also requested that DSS should arrest him, and he should be prosecuted by the EFCC”.
He went further to say;
“We have been to the US Embassy, we have been to the British Council in Nigeria, and we have also submitted a letter to the French Embassy, calling on them to advise the Nigerian government that Nigerian people are not happy.”
