Thread by @DemolaRewaju

As we approach the landmark 2019 election which will confirm if the new power elite in Govt will be willing to surrender power again, the role of @inecnigeria must henceforth be under continuous scrutiny and this righteous task is one on which patriots shouldn’t be deterred.

Democrats take it for granted that politicians are desperate in their quest to fulfil ambition by taking power, hence, the importance of an imperial arbiter.

If politicians in Nigeria are devious or desperate, why would Democracy need @inecnigeria?

The #OsunRerun and #OsunDecides elections have continued to haunt @inecnigeria, so much so that up till this moment as I tweet, INEC is still embarrassed to tweet the official results of the election as it always did in the past.

Yet we should believe they mean well for Nigeria?

Integrity is one thing, Incompetence is another matter.

The integrity of all the people at @inecnigeria may be enough to fill a ten litre jerrycan but as presently constituted, this INEC is incompetent to stop the desperation of politicians yet, it shifts the blame to others.

By putting its stamp of electoral finality on #OsunRerun, by denying the various illegalities we saw as regards that election, @inecnigeria has compromised the salient trust of all Nigerians and rather than keep quiet and focus on political parties, Nigerians should ask questions

@inecnigeria failed woefully to even issue a statement condemning the foul tactics of @OfficialAPCNg in denying PDP voters access to voting areas, or even query @PoliceNG’s role in such an anomaly - now the template has been elevated to another abnormal norm in the polity.

It is of course ironic to me, that @AkinwunmiAmbode who gleefully partook in the charade of #OsunRerun with his party, had same foul tactic used against him.

But let’s focus pls: what is @inecnigeria saying on this issue of legitimate voters being prevented from voting??

And let’s not get it twisted:

If the security man you hired to watch your house, opens the gate and even fails to challenge the armed robbers, he is no longer an innocent or helpless bystander but at least an enabler, and at worst, an ally.

INEC is an APC ally by their silence.

Again, understand this point:

Politicians by the desperation of aspiration are ambitious and will always try to gain advantage over one another even by foul means.

But the onus to ensure everyone plays within the electoral limits of fair play is squarely and directly on INEC.

To continue to maintain stony silence over #OsunRerun and the illegal play of APC is @inecnigeria giving encouragement to other politicians to do the same elsewhere.

And it’s happening - which is why I brought in the Ambode situation. Another video is on @I_Am_Ilemona’s TL.

A quick detour also to highlight @inecnigeria’s failure on another issue before I return to the matter of #OsunRerun.

INEC by Law is supposed to monitor party primaries.
APC by its rigging nature is declaring fictitious figures from everywhere.

Lol, why is INEC silent on these?

APC by claiming figures like 2.9m APC members from Kano is preparing grounds for rigging from Kano and everywhere else.

@inecnigeria, the legal umpire of even party primaries, is silent on those figures - do these ones look like people who can be trusted towards 2019?

Abegi...

“The circumstances that led to the cancellation of the election in the seven polling units where the election were rerun including violence, also repeated themselves in most of this election, raising questions on why results obtained under these conditions should now stand.”

That is what the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room rightly said of #OsunRerun.

What is the response of @inecnigeria - criminal silence.

To make it even more interesting, we now have a detailed situation report from the Nigerian Bar Association Election Monitoring Team.

NBA clearly explains how APC voters were given identification bands for their arms and thumb so that APC thugs could allow them access to voting areas while PDP voters (who of course didn’t have the coded identification body wear) were beaten mercilessly and turned back.

In some places it was white handkerchief tied around wrist, in some other places it was a face cap of certain colours that signalled APC voters whom the thugs allowed to go through while those without it were beaten, had their phones seized and turned back as @PoliceNG looked on.

The NBA report indicts the electoral conduct in Orolu and Ife North LGAs from which places the APC recorded outrageous results and graciously in connivance with INEC awarded PDP crazy votes like 2.

And we are grateful but this isn’t democracy and INEC is complicit in this mess.

Amazingly, when asked by the PDP State Party Agent for #OsunRerun, Mr. Dele Adeleke, no single @inecnigeria official saw or heard any evil - not even to put on the record the foul means used.

Dear Nigerians: They collude

@inecnigeria is colluding with @OfficialAPCNg.

Stories of the integrity of INEC - let everyone keep it in their pocket, along with whatever else INEC is giving them.

By failing to document the illegalities of #OsunRerun and condemning in at least, @inecnigeria is guilty and this their attitude can crash this democracy.

Meanwhile, @inecnigeria is tweeting about seminars being organised with foreign donor funds from DFID - seminars organised with @PoliceNG which they’re claiming are the ones guilty of giving cover to the APC thugs.

Why not seminar on THE ROLE OF THE POLICE IN ELECTIONS for e.g.?

Is @inecnigeria not aware that disenfranchisement is a serious electoral infraction, not even comparable to gerrymandering which Democrats around the world now frown upon?

Organising seminars on electoral offences with foreign donor money, while ignoring the real problem - Shame

This talk may not be so sweet in my mouth as an openly partisan person, but take this as gospel from @cchukudebelu himself.

Then beg “Concerned Nigerians” to leave PDP and Wike and aspirants alone, and instead, face INEC and ask these questions.

https://twitter.com/cchukudebelu/status/1047552248610480128?s=21

The Fight for our collective Future is not for PDP alone - let nonpartisan bodies in Nigeria begin to mount pressure on @inecnigeria.

I strongly believe #OsunRerun is a divine warning from the God of Creation referenced in our National Anthem, 2nd stanza.

He who has an ear...