However, NADECO has launched a global campaign against recognising Tinubu as the president-elect, alleging that the election was grossly manipulated.
The Nigerian political landscape has been embroiled in a web of controversy, with the opposition and some international community groups not recognising the electoral outcome as legitimate. The situation further deteriorated with the recent declaration by NADECO to lead a global campaign to reject the work of the polls.
The coalition described the election as flawed, citing widespread bribery and corruption that compromised the integrity of the electoral process.
Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, Lloyd Ukwu, the Executive Director of NADECO, U.S.A., declared Tinubu’s election fraudulent, announcing that the coalition has consequently severed ties with him.
Speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Ukwu appealed to the Joe Biden administration and the global community not to recognise Tinubu’s election, describing the press conference as the first of its series of events planned over the next several weeks regarding the recently held presidential election in Nigeria.
NADECO alleges that the election results pronounced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (“INEC”), February 25-26, 2023, are fundamentally at odds with Nigerian election laws and constitute wholesale disenfranchisement of Nigerian voters caused by the pervasive rot of Nigeria’s increasingly kleptocratic political structure.
The coalition demands that INEC draw back its curtains to let the whole light of truth prove the transparency and veracity of the 2023 electoral processes. It is without question that nearly all of the electoral reforms implemented to safeguard the 2023 Nigerian elections have been savaged by INEC and scattered to the winds of tyranny.
In the opinion of the coalition, the recent election was polluted by blatant bribery and widespread corruption – even INEC itself has admitted to its abject failures to comply with the requisite transparency laws mandating real-time electronic transmission of election results from the polling units to the public, instead opting to cloak the electronic effects in darkness before emerging with a declared rather than proved “winner” who is presently incapable of being fully embraced by the world.
NADECO maintains that the 2023 Nigerian Presidential Election attempts to disenfranchise the Nigerian people through the Four Horsemen of Democracy’s Doom – Bribery, Voter Intimidation, Insecurity, and Vote Rigging, all harnessed to skew the results of the 2023 Nigerian Presidential Election.
The coalition calls upon the people and the Judiciary of Nigeria and the International Community to join hands in a concerted effort toward global condemnation and absolute rejection of the hasty, hollow, and illegitimate result declared by INEC as being contrary to the will of the people and the rule of law.
NADECO is gravely concerned about the irregularities, voter intimidation, violence, the breach of the National Electoral Act, and most importantly, the abrupt and hurried pronouncement of the dubious 2023 Presidential Election results.
This, in their viewpoint, signals a wholesale disenfranchisement of voters in Africa’s largest nation. The coalition’s goals and singular mandate have always been to fight for the rule of law and democracy in Nigeria as Nigeria’s watchdog of democracy.
NADECO heat this moment as a first step, formally severing its relationship with Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a former founding member of NADECO (U.S.A.), for his participation in the worst electoral fraud in Nigeria’s recent history.