Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has flayed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for spending four years to conduct what it sees as falling short of credible, free, fair and transparent elections.
HURIWA claimed that electoral officials, especially in Lagos, Kano and Rivers states, allegedly gave in to whims and caprices of “desperately greedy governments to enable the heaviest heist of election results to be perfected.”
In a statement, yesterday, by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, the group backed “outright cancellation of the results from Lagos and Rivers states for being irredeemably manipulated.”
It criticised the police in Kano for allegedly “encouraging underage voting and even stating on public television, watched around the world, that the thousands of underage voters seen on television suffer from DNA (genetic) deformity.”
HURIWA blamed…
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