CSOs, ethnic youth leaders, and opposition political parties in Nigeria are accused of conspiring to obstruct the electronic transmission of election results in the general elections of 2023.
Additionally, they asserted that they had discovered strategies for pressuring the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to turn off the Bi-modal Voter Accreditation System, BIVAS, from the INEC server during the polls.
The organisations said yesterday at a joint conference in Abuja that some governors were pushing for a commission leadership change.
National chairmen of registered and deregistered political parties, the opposition coalition CUPP, and civil society groups numbering over 50, along with hundreds of their members, attended the press briefing, which also had in attendance leading national chairmen and representatives of opposition parties and chieftains from Labour Party, LP; Action Alliance, AA; Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and African Democratic Congress, ADC, among others.
Reading the text of the briefing, the spokesman of CUPP, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, insisted that there was immense pressure on the leadership of INEC to deactivate the BIVAS from its server.
“The pressure has been resisted by INEC, hence the plot to cause a leadership change in the electoral management body which will consume top officials, including the chairman and few national commissioners still insisting on the use of the BIVAS,” he said.
Ugochinyere said the group had “also resolved to immediately approach the court to seek judicial redress to ensure the electoral process is not derailed.”