By our correspondent
Group operating under the aegis of Arewa Consultative Youths Movement (ACYM) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to investigate the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma over alleged plot to sack the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu and deactivate the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS).
It would be recalled that the opposition political parties had during the week raised concerns over alleged fresh plots to truncate the 2023 general election through evil means, including stopping the use of BVAS and electronic transmission of results.
According to them, plans had been perfected by the perpetrators to create crisis of confidence based on trumped up charges that would lead to the removal of top officials of INEC, including its chairman and other National Commissioners who are insisting on the use of the BVAS for the 2023 general elections and the “irreversible” use of electronic transmission of the result.
The group in a statement by its President, Kabiru Yusuf alleged that it has identified Governor Uzodinma as leading the group of people who were hatching the “anti-INEC agenda.”
It said it was therefore important for President Buhari, as the leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) which Uzodinma belongs, to convince Nigerians that the plan is not that of his party by disowning the governor.
“We have discovered that Governor Uzodinma is the brain behind the plot to sack INEC chairman and deactivate BVAS.
“We are therefore calling on the President to investigate the governor who belongs to his party.
“This is the only way President Buhari can prove to all lovers of democracy that his party is not behind this Uzodinma’s agency.
“President Buhari should hurry up and disown this governor who is already carrying on as if he has an agenda to truncate the nation’s democracy”, the statement read in part.
