Amaechi says APC wouldn’t have won in 2015 under current INEC chairman
The current chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, has come under fire from former Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi, who claims that if Yakubu had been in charge at the time, the All Progressives Congress would not have been registered or won the 2015 general elections.
During his Tuesday night appearance on Arise TV, Amaechi commended Prof. Attahiru Jega, the previous chairman of INEC, for guaranteeing a transparent election process that resulted in the APC’s registration and eventual victory in 2015.
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He said, “The current chairman of INEC, if he was the chairman of INEC in 2015, we would not have won. That’s an important point. May God bless (Attahiru) Jega. Because the ground rules were clear. The current chairman of INEC can only be compared to Iwu.
“When we were to register APC, Jega opened the door and we complied with the registration requirements. He got APC registered. The current man, if you comply with all these, he would not register you.”
He alleged that INEC under Yakubu is already showing signs of bias.
“Already, INEC is biased. So, the only thing I can tell you now is that, looking at the way Nigeria has run the election, even the Option A4 led us forward. At least a lot of transparency. You were sure of what was going on. Then we came back to meet people like Iwu and others and the current one and things got worse.
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“So, you don’t know whether to say we are progressing or we are regressing. There’s a state capture using the electoral institution as a machine,” Amaechi added.
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