During an interview with Arise , Segun Sowunmi, a member of the PDP, stated that the INEC no longer has the ability to tell us anything that we would believe because much was said before the 2023 presidential election. He added that INEC failed to keep its promise and ended up conducting an election that wasn’t free and fair.
Sowunmi added that INEC must let them know if they still want them to stay in democracy or not because they cannot continue to be cheated. He stated that they will fulfil their civic rights in the upcoming election, but INEC must ensure that they tell them the truth.
According to him, “INEC no longer has the ability to tell us anything that we’ll believe because, as I said before the 2023 election, all Nigerians believed that, and you know how they performed on that. Ironically, the way our laws are, it always seems as if there is a consequence for INEC and the leadership of INEC for you to know about things around elections. It’s always the losers and the winners that still go to court, and INEC just comes and pretends as if it was not the one that created the mess. So going to the next set of elections, our leaders are saying that yes, an election is going to come up in this location, and we have a democratic responsibility and an obligation to participate and be there, but we have to tell INEC that we should not waste our time. Should we tell the whole world that democracy is not working in Nigeria and therefore we want to get out of it because there’s no point in us holding the short end of the stick all the time?”
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