Maku Has Urged International Community To Investigate Elections In Nasarawa State

Nasarawa State gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Mr Labaran Maku, has called on international communities to investigate the activities of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and the All Progressive Congress (APC), over unnecessary cancelation of over 150, 000 votes during the Presidential and National Assembly elections in the state.

Maku, made the pronouncements while addressing journalists in Lafia, yesterday saying what happened in last Saturday’s election in the state was shameful to Nasarawa as a whole and a broad daylight robbery. According to him, Nasarawa state just like in 2015 elections, recorded one of the highest cancelations of over 75, 000 votes and in last Saturday's election was doubled. 

Maku, who accused the INEC staff of conniving with Government to caused the atrocities by way of cancellations of results in many strongholds that ACP is losing.

“The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has collaborated with the All Progressives Congress (APC) led government in the state to cancel vote in areas they failed in order to give them advantage.

“If there was no collusion between them, then INEC should investigate all Presiding Officers with the records of over voting with the view of persecuting them for electoral crime,” Maku added.

The aspirant further faulted the electoral umpire and the security agencies in the state for not being neutral in their conduct throughout the election period.

“The security agencies were supposed to be the once to protect the votes and ensure that only the true winners were announced.

“Nobody is supposed to raise a private Army to protect his or her votes because that is the duty of the security agencies.

"so, I am worried, because what happened last Saturday has created a doubt of what is going to happen on the 9th of March, because the state are set for manipulation of results to make sure that the people again are denied their right to vote in leaders that they want,” he stated.

It could be recalled that INEC in Nasarawa state canceled 157, 591 votes across the State for alleged over voting.