Review 2023 Elections Through Independent Public Inquiry – CUPP

The Coalition Of United Political Parties, CUPP, has called on the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, to set up an open Independent public inquiry to examine the glitches experienced during the 2023 presidential election in the country.

This is contained in a statement signed by the National Secretary of CUPP, High Chief Peter Ameh in Abuja.

The statement stresses that without the establishment of an open public Inquiry any purported plan by the electoral umpire to review the process indicates that the Commission is hiding so much from Nigerians.

“If the commission is truly concerned about credibility, then setting an open independent Public inquiry on the glitches that the commission claimed undermined the integrity of 2023 Presidential election is the best way to go” he adds.

It states that the suspicion and lack of public confidence in the election is so overwhelming that INEC’s review will elicit the kind of public trust needed to either justify what happened or uncover the fraudsters within the commission.

“They deliberately thwarted the process by which Nigerians could have established a Credible election process” Chief Ameh stresses.

According to the statement, if the commission goes ahead to conduct a self examination through a non transparent process of reviewing the elections it will amount to nothing in the eyes of the general public.

The statement further explains that the commission can not review itself without an element of bias.

“So if the Commission is interested in reviewing the 2023 general election, the right thing to do is to set up an independent commission of inquiry to investigate and examine the unverifiable claims of the commission that there was a glitch, their terms of reference made known to the public the Nature of the glitch and what caused it as well as names of those in charge as at the time it occurred.

“We need to know that this was not a deliberate attempt by members of the commission to undermine the integrity of our election by subverting the rights of the people to vote and elect their leaders through a free, fair and credible process” Ameh states.

Georgina Humphrey, Edited By Grace Namiji