A chieftain of the Labour Party, Professor Pat Utomi, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately commence the review of the election results in 12 states.
According to Utomi, the states include Lagos, Rivers, Delta, Imo, Akwa-Ibom, Plateau, Benue, Kaduna, Adamawa, Taraba, Bayelsa, and Bauchi.
Utomi, who made the call while addressing Journalists in Lagos on Friday, pointed out that the electoral umpire should set up a review committee that would comprise each member of the political parties.
He said, ‘We ask for immediate review of the voting of last week in 12 states at the very least, including Lagos, Rivers, Delta, Imo, Akwa-Ibom, Plateau, Benue, Kaduna, Adamawa, Taraba, Bayelsa, Bauchi.’
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‘We ask that INEC immediately begins the process of review. It should collate and bring all the materials from all these states to Abuja where people will feel less threatened, and that every party name a number of well regarded people to be on the panel of review that will be open, transparent before the whole world and all the media.
‘Unless they do this, they have shown that they are not true democrats. It should be done immediately. It will enable INEC to come to some helpful resolution.
‘Where there is a dispute about the outcome of the review, that all of us demand of the court system judgement based on a review of these troubled states and give the mandate to who the numbers point to.’
In another report, Pan Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has presented an agenda to the President-elect and Presidential candidate of the APC, Bola Tinubu calling on him to restructure the country.
Afenifere who set this agenda in a congratulatory message signed by its National Publicity Secretary Comrade Jare Ajayi described his victory in the 2023 Presidential election as one that should further unify the country in view of the spread of his votes from across the country.
Africa Today News, New York reports the group who openly backed the candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Mr. Peter Obi in the 2023 general election stated that for the president-elect to have garnered substantial votes from five out of the country’s six geo-political zones demonstrates that the mandate given to him and his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima is one meant to re-invent Nigeria as a truly federal yet united country.