2023 Election Was Fraudulent, Poorly Managed By INEC

Datti Baba-Ahmed accused INEC of conducting a fraudulent 2023 election.
He said the results were inconsistent with the Constitution and truth.
He insisted posterity and Nigerians would ultimately judge the commission.

The former vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Datti Baba-Ahmed, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of conducting what he described as a fraudulent and poorly managed election in 2023.

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that Baba-Ahmed made the remark on Friday during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today while responding to questions about Nigeria’s electoral process.

The former lawmaker expressed disappointment in the electoral body, stating that the outcome of the 2023 general elections was inconsistent with the Nigerian Constitution and failed to reflect the will of the people. He stressed that INEC’s actions had left the country in its current state of uncertainty.

“The question you’re asking me about INEC, I have never been a critic of INEC. I don’t have energy to spend on criticising INEC. INEC conducted a fraudulent and bad election, which is not, up to now, consistent with the Nigerian Constitution, the declaration itself, and I stated it that they have finished us,” he said.

Baba-Ahmed further explained that since the commission had already declared a government, Nigerians were now left to deal with the kind of governance being provided. He noted that his concern was not with criticising INEC but in stating what he considered to be the truth about the elections.

He added, “Let INEC do what they feel like, let their conscience judge them, let posterity judge them, let Nigerians judge them.”

The Labour Party candidate and his running mate, Peter Obi, had challenged the outcome of the 2023 presidential election but lost at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal and subsequently at the Supreme Court.