INEC should prosecute atiku over ‘north needs northerner’ remark, says Kenneth Okonkwo | TheCable 2023Elections
Kenneth Okonkwo, spokesperson of the Peter Obi presidential campaign council , says the Independent National Electoral Commission should prosecute Atiku AbubakarOkonkwo, who made the remark in an interview with Channels Television on Thursday, said the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party should have been disqualified for “ethnic profiling”.northerners need a president from the north — and not someone of Igbo or Yoruba extraction.
“By going to the north and making a genocidal statement that northerners should vote for north only; this was what caused genocide in Rwanda when Hutus were told that they should not support Tutsis because they are cockroaches. Okonkwo cited section 97 of the Electoral Act 2022 as the basis for INEC to take action against Atiku.