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INEC Chair Was Recommended To Buhari By Tinubu’s Man – Amaechi; Says No Government In Nigeria

March 19, 2023

By Charles Igbo

Immediate past Minister for Transportation has revealed that the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has ties with the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, who is now the Presidential-elect.

Amaechi said this while lamenting the outcomes of the 2023 elections conducted by Yakubu after voting in his Polling Unit.

Speaking to Journalists, Amaechi gave the impression that Yakubu was dealing with those of them who opposed his second term in office.

He said Yakubu was recommended for appointment by someone in Tinubu’s Camp.

His words: “INEC is a complete failure. There are those of us who opposed the reappointment of Yakubu Mahmood. The person who nominated him is a member of Tinubu’s Camp. So, what are you expecting?

Using Rivers State as a peg, Amaechi said Nigeria has failed, and lamented the failure of governance.

Amaechi: “There is a total failure of governance in the Country. Complete failure. Police are helping PDP to arrest APC members and SDP members.

“Gongs are being beaten about in the whole communities asking people who will not vote PDP not to come out or they would be beaten. People are being beaten. The Governor, (Wike), has declared people wanted, and nobody has spoken.

“The Governor has no right to declare anybody wanted. The IGP (Inspector General of Police) is doing nothing, nobody is doing anything. Complete failure. There is voter-apathy in Rivers. Nobody wants to come out because people are scared.

“INEC is complete failure. There are those of us who opposed the reappointment of Yakubu Mahmood. The person who nominated him is a member of Tinubu’s Camp. So, what are you expecting?

“Here in Rivers State, Mahmood worked under Wike as Executive Secretary of TETFund. So, what you are having in Rivers is that APC and other parties are contesting, not against PDP but against INEC, against Police.”