From Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja
Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has said that alleged plot to sack the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, ahead of the 2023 general elections, is still on.
The spokesman of the coalition, Ikenga Ugochinyere, stated this, at a press briefing, on Monday, in Abuja. However, Ugochinyere said the opposition will resist any attempt to remove the INEC chairman, prior to next year’s poll.
The opposition spokesman, while charging well meaning Nigerians to stand in defense of the country’s democracy, urged security agencies to take actions against those accused of tempering with the voter register.
According to him, “there is still a plot to sack the INEC Chairman to frustrate the use of the BVAS machine and the cleaning up of the register.
“It is for this purpose that the Nigerian opposition and, indeed, all Nigerian citizens of goodwill have resolved that we shall resist and reject any form of the arrest of the INEC Chairman when he returns to the country (he is currently outside the country).
“We shall also vehemently resist and reject every form of resignation from office by the INEC Chairman, either forced or otherwise, or any other form or method of removal from office.”
He added “compromising the voters’ register is a crime, as provided in the Electoral Act, with a punishment of One-year Imprisonment, so the security agencies must not keep quiet.”