The Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has thrown it’s weight behind former President, Olusegun Obasanjo’s claim that President Muhammadu Buhari was planning to rig the forthcoming election.
Obasanjo had on Sunday alleged that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, was plotting to rig the forthcoming election in favour of Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Reacting, Ohanaeze said the alleged political manoeuvrings ahead of the forthcoming election has vindicated Obasanjo’s statement.
In a statement issued in Abakaliki, yesterday, the National Publicity Secretary of the body, Uche Achi-Okpagha said: “Every indication testifies to Obasanjo’s vindication. President Obasanjo (as he then was) appointed a South-Easterner, GEJ appointed a northerner, but apparently, owing to his ulterior motives seemingly playing out now, he appointed a northerner as lNEC Chairman.
“The bleeding issues are the latest appointment of Amina Zakari who has been an age long close confidant of Buhari and the callous and blatant move to remove the Chief Justice of Nigeria.
“The majority fear and alarming opinion are to the fact that the presidency wants to remove the CJN and plant a northerner, as usual, who would play to the political gallery and instruct appointed judges to make electoral decisions favourable to the APC.
“I sincerely identify with Obasanjo in his fears and posit that a four-year-old government should be able to tell Nigerians that ‘l did this and that’ not that ‘l will do this and that.”
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