Timi Frank Calls For INEC Chairman’s Resignation

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Former Deputy National
Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi
Frank, has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
Chairman to resign his appointment for attending a clandestine meeting
and plotting to compromise the forthcoming presidential election in
favour of Buhari through the appointment of Buhari’s neice to oversee
the collation of presidential votes even before the first ballot was
cast.

Frank who gave a
graphic detail of how President Muhammadu Buhari’s neice, Amina Zakari
was appointed as the Chairperson of INEC’s Advisory Committee and
Election Collation Centre Committee, said in a statement on Friday in
Abuja that the meeting took place at the Glass House inside the Aso Rock
Villa in the early hours of Thursday prior to the announcement of that
selection was made by Prof. Mahmood Yakubu – chairman of the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC).

He stated that he is in
possession of reliable information about how the INEC chair and Zakari
were smuggled into the villa at about 12.30am on Thursday after which
Buhari, accompanied by few of his trusted aides, joined them inside the
Glass House for the meeting.

He disclosed that Yakubu arrived for the meeting in a Black Peugeot 508,
wearing a blue caftan while Zakari came in a black Prado Jeep, wearing a
jalabiya.

He said the meeting lasted for 45 minutes.

He noted that Amina Zakari was the Commission’s head of electoral
operations and logistics before she was redeployed to the department of
health and welfare in October 12, 2018, following misgivings about her
clear partisan posture in various elections conducted when she held sway
as head of operations and logistics at INEC.

He added that her relationship with Buhari became suspect as many
believed she was working for the re-election of her uncle – Buhari – and
the success of the APC, which became obvious in the Edo, Ekiti and Osun
governorship elections and other rerun elections that she supervised
during the period.

He said that the appointment of Zakari to such a sensitive assignment
was a culmination of the pressure the Presidency had brought to bare on
Prof. Yakubu to return Zakari to the Operations department since
October.

Frank called on the Chairman of INEC to resign his appointment for
attending such a clandestine meeting and plotting to compromise the
forthcoming presidential election in favour of Buhari through the
appointment of Buhari’s neice to oversee the collation of presidential
votes even before the first ballot was cast.

He added that Nigerians have lost confidence in him to conduct a free,
fair and credible 2019 elections.

“A man who can succumb to pressure and brazenly compromise to further
the desire of a candidate in an election cannot be trusted to be
impartial during a general election with high stakes. I think he needs
to undergo a test for codeine and tramadol abuse to think that Nigerians
can be fooled that Zakari’s recent appointment is not a back door move
to make her relevant in caring for Buhari’s interests during the
Presidential elections,” Frank stated.

He observed that even though Buhari benefitted from a free, fair and
credible elections in 2015, he is not ready to advance the nation’s
democracy by sticking to free and fair elections this time.

Frank said: “This is largely why he has refused to signed the amended
Electoral Act 2010 and has now shopped for his Neice to oversee the
hatchet job of rigging him back to power.

“Buhari is running away from a free and fair election. He is depending
on INEC and the security forces to allocate votes to him. That is why he
refused to sign the amended Electoral Act.

“As a perpetual law breaker, he has again broken the law by refusing to
allow the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to go on
retirement after spending his ‘overly doctored 35 mandatory years’ in
the service of the country as a Police Officer.”

He insisted that Nigerians are hopeful that Buhari’s desperation will
not set Nigeria ablaze post elections but lamented that “the way he
(Buhari) is going, crisis will definitely engulf the country because the
opposition is determined not to accept any rigging or compromised
electoral process during the next election.

“If Buhari has any iota of integrity, let him demonstrate it now by
allowing for a free, fair and credible elections in February and March.
We know he has no integrity and the opposition is ready to meet any of
his shenanigans with equal and greater shenanigans.”

The Bayelsa-born political activist called on all patriotic Nigerians
including the NLC, TUC, ASUU, NASU, ASUP, NBA, NMA, traditional and
religious leaders to speak up in order to avert Buhari’s rigging plot
capable of plunging the country into a bitter and violent crisis.

He also called on the United Nations and Nigeria’s allies in the
advanced democracies – as members of the international community
-working to sustain peace across the world to come to the aid of Nigeria
at its most trying times.

Source:- Vanguardngr

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