Ezenwa: Plot to Undermine 2023 Poll is Real In this interview with reporters, Chairman of Partners for Electoral Reform and board member of YIAGA, Nwagwu Ezenwa, calls on Buhari to investigate
In this interview with reporters, Chairman of Partners for Electoral Reform and board member of YIAGA, Nwagwu Ezenwa, calls on Buhari to investigate reports of alleged plot to undermine the 2023 general elections.How would you rate the level of INEC’s preparation ahead of the 2023 polls?
Few days ago, the CUPP addressed a press conference, and it is the reaction of that press conference that is of interest to me. It doesn’t look as if a lot of people are taking that press conference seriously. The allegations that were made there deserve investigation. And the way to do that is to begin to put up trumped-up charges against the leadership of INEC and they’ve been doing that. If you remember, Professor Ogban, was hounded out of that place before his term expired. Several invitations to the security agencies, his cars were burgled and the rest of them.
I think we have seen them. We’ve seen this happen all the time. We have done perhaps five election cycles – 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019 and 2023 should be the seventh election cycle. What has been the narrative? That is coming to the point that I’ve been making. The challenge of breaking the rules, breaking the law for elections is that those who have responsibility to sanction, look the other way. It is as simple as that.
We are seeing real manifests, vicious attack on those progress that we have made and we cannot keep quiet. And we can point the places where this is happening and the President, the security agencies are aware, they know.