IPAC claims that election fraud is to blame for the attempt to depose Yakubu.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, was the target of a plan, according to the Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC), which has accused desperate politicians hell-bent on manipulating the general elections of 2023 of being behind it.

As a result, the umbrella group of Nigeria’s 18 political parties approved a vote of confidence in the country’s main election arbiter.

IPAC’s National Secretary, Yusuf Mamman Dantalle, said in remarks to media yesterday in Abuja that Nigerians would not accept a repetition of the June 12, 1993 presidential election deadlock.

Remember that a Federal High Court rejected a request to oust Yakubu from office due to an alleged fake wealth declaration.

The decision was made in response to an initial summons issued by Somadina Uzoabaka to the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, and Yakubu, seeking, among other things, an order of mandatory injunction compelling the INEC Chairman to recuse, excuse, and exclude himself from, or resign from, his position as chair of the Commission pending investigation and consideration of the various allegations against him by the various law enforcement agencies.

In addition, the complaint requested that Yakubu be barred from holding or assuming any public office for a period of ten years.

However, the head of INEC challenged the assertion by presenting the court with a number of papers to show the financial sources for the purchase of the properties that the plaintiff alleged were obtained unlawfully, insisting that his asset declaration was correctly completed.

The court, on the other hand, was praised by Dantalle for thwarting what he called “great conspiracies to disrupt the existing election process, generate a constitutional crisis, political upheavals, and quagmire.”

IPAC urged “reactionary forces to abstain from their machinations to truncate the nation’s nascent democracy” while supporting INEC in the use of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and other technology for the 2019 elections.

Dantalle warned that his group will thwart any effort to undermine the current election process intended to strengthen the country’s civil rule.

In line with IPAC’s position, he stated, “INEC’s position on the deployment of technology for the conduct of the general elections in 2023.”