Founder of Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc and Anap Foundation, Atedo Peterside, has said that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, under the former chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, was a national disgrace.
Naijaonpoint reports that Peterside made this remark on Monday while responding to questions during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme.
When asked about his expectations of the new INEC leadership under Joash Amupitan and the forthcoming off-cycle elections in Anambra and Ekiti states, Peterside accused Yakubu of numerous inconsistencies in election results.
He said, “I would never say never. But the INEC left by Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu was a national disgrace.
“If you have time, you just have to go on the IReV. I can take you there myself and show you result sheet which they manipulated.
“Sometimes they changed figures and forgot to change the words. This didn’t add up at all.”
Meanwhile, the national chairman of the Action Alliance (AA), Kenneth Udeze, has dismissed reports that a Federal High Court in Osogbo, Osun State, delivered a contempt judgment against Yakubu.
In a statement issued to journalists, Udeze insisted that the party never sued Yakubu and never authorised anyone to do so.
He said, “On the issue of the purported court order against the former INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, I want Nigerians to disregard such false rumours, as there’s no such judgement.”
Udeze challenged aggrieved members of the party to produce the alleged order, describing the claims as false, misleading, and politically motivated.
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