The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, said that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, cost him victory in the 2019 general election.
Sowore threw the allegation at INEC on Wednesday at ‘The Roundtable’, a programme organised by PUNCH Newspapers, as per a report by the publication.
It reported that the SaharaReporters Publisher said INEC could not be trusted to superintend a fair and free poll, alleging that the electoral body is government-in-power’s puppet.
He claimed he was on course to win the 2019 poll, but the adjournment of the election allegedly after many Nigerians in the diaspora flew into the country with the view to cast their votes for him led to his defeat.
“I participated in the 2019 election, and I can say it categorically as I say it everywhere, there was no election in 2019. But this is how it started: I was waiting in my village for the election and INEC just suddenly, on the eve of the election, postponed the election by, I think, two weeks.
“…Some of our colleagues that came from the US, Europe, South Africa to vote, they had to leave. And this was not a small number. I’m not saying the number…would have made me win the election, but the moment that election was postponed, people had doubts as to whether the election would (be held) again and they lost interest.
“In 2015, election was also postponed for security reasons. Why were they talking about postponing the election when the governor of Borno State said 90 per cent of the state was free from Boko Haram control? If you ask me, it’s not true. But what they are telling you is that 90 per cent of Borno is free for rigging so that they will bring their big numbers from all those fake places where they claim that people are voting whereas there are no people living in those areas,” the publication quoted him as saying.
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