By Harry Awurumibe, Editor Abuja Bureau
The continued delay in the release of the Presidential and National Assembly elections and the questions surrounding the inability of political parties to access the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Results Viewing Portals (iREV) have led to protest in the nation’s capital Abuja as a group of angry youth and women on Tuesday took to streets to demand that the ongoing collation and announcements of results be halted.
The group which was heading to the National Collation Center at International Conference Center, Abuja, could only get to the National Defence College in the Central Business District (CBD), Abuja to complain to the authorities were carrying postcards which read: #Bringback iREV No Collation of Results and #We Want New Nigeria.
Some of the youth and women who spoke to journalists called on President Muhammadu Buhari to step into the confusion that have trailed the results of the Presidential and National Assembly elections which they claimed are fraudulent results.
Ms. Oby Elekwa who claimed that the people of Nigeria have been robbed of their rights to elect the President of their choice, saying that angry Nigerian women and youth demand a credible elections.
“We are calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to impress upon the INEC Chairman Professor Mahmood Yakubu to stop the collation and announcements of results. The results being churned out are not the results Nigerians voted on Saturday.
“We have come out without guns or weapons. They have to listen to us but if they refuse then we will do it in the way of mothers which are to carry our clothes up (naked) and lay down on the floor to cry unto the authorities”.
