Bakare to Jega: You lied to Nigerians

Posted by admin CPC (Congress 4 Progressive Change), Elections 2011, INEC Politics, Party Politics Sunday, April 24th, 2011

The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has formally rejected the result of the recent presidential election, accusing the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, of not telling Nigerians the whole truth about the poll.
It urged the people to remain calm, but vowed to pursue all legal and constitutional means to reverse what it called the injustice done to the electoral process.

In a press statement by the Buhari/Bakare Presidential Campaign Organisation entitled “Why we reject the result of the presidential election” and addressed by the party’s Vice Presidential candidate, Pastor Tunde Bakare, the CPC said the result of the election was a subversion of the popular will of the electorate.

Pastor Bakare totally rejected results from the South East and South South zone of the country and urged INEC to, as a matter of urgency, take custody of all election materials and make the ballot papers in support of the votes cast in the two zones available for a representative sample of thumb prints to be matched with the biometric voters register by forensic experts.
“The façade at the polling units must be unmasked for this election to be seen as the sham that it truly was. The integrity of elections is crucial for the survival of our nascent democracy, as no legitimate government can be founded on a stolen mandate.

“We consider the subversion of the popular will to be the worst form of corruption that can befall any nation,” he said and urged INEC to, “As a matter of utmost urgency to take custody of all election materials and make the ballot papers in support of the votes cast in the South South and South East zones available for a representative sample of the thumb prints to be matched with the biometric based voters register by forensic experts”.

He added: “The same examination can be conducted in the North West and North East zones if only for the sake of good order. A sample of the result sheets at the ward and local government collation centres should also be examined by independent third party accountants. “If the ballot papers and/or figures were found to have been substantially manipulated, the commission should be bold enough to reverse its position on the declared result if only in the interest of peace and greater public good.

“Prosecute to the full extent of the law all those found to have played a role in once again bringing the credibility of the commission into disrepute.” Pastor Bakare said the INEC chairman did not tell the truth when he asserted that it was the commission’s staff who discovered the deflation of the votes of the CPC in Kano and Katsina.

“We appeal for calm from Nigerians while the CPC would pursue all legal and constitutional means to reverse the injustice done to the electoral process and reclaim our stolen mandate.

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