Afrigather Erstwhile Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC for Cross River and Akwa Ibom States, Mr Mike Igini continues to be in shock and emotionally down over the conduct of the 2023 Common Election saying that the method deviated from the issued pointers and procedures earmarked by the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee, INEC.
Igini who’s one in all Nigeria’s revered electoral reform advocates had within the days to the February 25 presidential election repeatedly asserted that it will be the very best within the historical past of the nation and that the ballot can’t be rigged based mostly on established pointers.
. stories that following the shambolic conduct of the election that many individuals got here to the general public house to allege that their religion and confidence Igini put in his advocacy made them to have a pretend perception on a clean course of. Some went so far as alleging that Igini deceived them.
Nevertheless, in a pointy response, Igini in an interview lamented the conduct of the election saying that it deviated from established pointers and procedures.
Igini who spoke to Vanguard’s Johnbosco Agbarakwu stated:
“I can perceive the emotions of utmost disappointment, ache and frustrations of fellow countrymen and girls significantly youths, over what was promised and the painful expertise they went by throughout the elections and their unmet expectations.
“We’re in these agonizing moments of ache collectively. l have been down emotionally and nonetheless in shock over the extent of deviation from established legal guidelines, issued pointers and procedures that all of us signed into and that I leveraged, truthfully and faithfully to name on Nigerians to take part absolutely to find out their leaders. I’ll by no means be a part of any plot or design to deceive Nigerians, might such a day by no means are available in my lifetime.
“My ardour at no cost, honest and credible elections in Nigeria didn’t start in 2023. Those that have diligently adopted my advocacy for election integrity will bear in mind my zealous exertions and subsequent detention in Enugu earlier than and after the annulment of the June 12 elections in 1993, many additionally will recall my participation in CODER for electoral reforms after the fiasco that was described because the 2007 common election.
“Those that are eager on elections may even recall how I took the identical ardour to my supervisory roles within the regulation of the electoral course of as a Resident Electoral Commissioner in Cross River, intervention missions in Anambra, Imo state Guber elections in each 2011 and 2015, Edo, and later Akwa-Ibom states.
“Frankly, l don’t assume I did something fallacious by the weekly voters’ and civic training that I gave to Nigerians with out being paid a dime at a time that l had provides for a consultancy that I politely declined as a result of l needed to be goal in seeing to the implementation of the method that I used to be a part of setting up earlier than my tenure ended final yr,” Igini stated in claiming his shock over the deviations within the conduct of the 2023 election.
Send Us A Press Assertion Promote With Us Contact Us
And For Extra Nigerian Information Go to .
