A BOT member of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Buba Galadima, has admonished President Bola Tinubu to sack the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu.
Galadima maintained that Yakubu had allegedly conspired with some politicians he refused to name just to subvert the will of Nigerians during the last presidential election.
Speaking with Channels Television yesterday in an interview which was monitored by Africa Today News, New York, Galadima said what Yakubu did was less than what the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele, did before he was sacked.
He stressed that the INEC boss committed more crimes than Emefiele.
According to Galadima: ‘The INEC chairman must go, what he did is not up to what Godwin Emefiele did.
‘He colluded with some people to subvert the will of Nigerians. He committed the greatest crime anybody will commit.’
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Africa Today News, New York reports that Yakubu has repeatedly been accused by opposition parties of compromising the just concluded 2023 presidential election.
Some political stakeholders had accused the INEC chairman of manipulating the 2023 presidential election in favour of Tinubu.
Presently, there are matters before the Presidential Election Tribunal which are challenging the outcome of the polls.
Last week, a digital forensic expert whose name was given as Hitler Nwuala informed the court that INEC deliberately deleted all the results of presidential elections from the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) under the guise of preparing for the governorship election which was eventually held on the 18th of March.
The forensic expert who was the 26th witness called by Atiku Abubakar, who was the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 25 poll, claimed to have inspected 110 BVAS devices used during the presidential polls in the FCT and insisted that all the machines he inspected had their data deliberately deleted.
During cross-examination by INEC’s lawyer, Abubakar Mahmoud, Nwuala maintained that it was unnecessary for the electoral body to have deleted the presidential election result data from BVAS machines used in the FCT because the FCT did not hold governorship elections.