LP demands for the dismissal, prosecution of INEC chairman, Mahmood.
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The Labour Party has demanded the immediate dismissal from office and prosecution of Prof Yakubu Mahmood, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, over the reports on the 2023 presidential election.
The demand was made by the Director General of the Campaign Council, Otumba Akin Osuntokun at a media briefing in Abuja, on Thursday.
The organisation said the demand followed the final reports of the Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room and the International Community regarding what it described as the desecration of the presidential election of 25th February, 2023.
The LP called for a forensic financial investigation of the billions of naira disbursed and donated to INEC by the government and the international community.
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In a Twitter post on Thursday, a spokesperson of the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Organisation, Barr Kenneth Okonkwo said: “The Labour Party Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Organisation has demanded unequivocally, the immediate dismissal from office and prosecution of Prof Yakubu Mahmood, INEC Chairman, and Festus Okoye, INEC Federal Commissioner in charge of voter education following the final reports of the Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room and the International Community regarding the desecration of the presidential election of 25th February, 2023.
