Ex-Labour Party vice presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, has slammed the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, for announcing the 2023 election result at 4am.
Speaking in an interview with Symfoni, Baba-Ahmed stated that an electoral umpire that announces results at 4am is a criminal.
Baba-Ahmed also lambasted President Bola Tinubu for leading a government that was a product of that ‘criminal’ act.
“I keep saying, and I sometimes I wonder, we Nigerians, why do we just take everything to pass? How can an INEC chairman promise African leaders, including Nelson Mandela’s younger brother,Thabo Mbeki, that he would announce election result by 9am but sneaked and did the announcement by by 4am?
“Isn’t this person a thief? Isn’t he a crook to announce results by 4am? This is wrong. Look, you’re a Nigerian. I’m a Nigerian. Well, I know I did my part. I tried to stop it, but it has passed.
“And how can you shamelessly be leading a government that was announced at 4am? Who works at 4am? Criminals! The INEC that announces a result at 4am is a criminal INEC. Believe me,” he said.
In another development, an aggrieved political association, All Democratic Alliance, ADA, and its Protem Director of Mobilization, Ahidjo Ibrahim Karlahi have dragged INEC before the Federal High Court in Abuja praying for an order of the Court to compel the electoral body to withdraw the registration of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, as a political party in Nigeria
The grouse of ADA and Karlahi are predicated on allegations that the Senator Seriake Dickson led NDC was illegally and fraudulently registered by INEC as a political party for the purpose of participating in election matters in the country.
In a suit with number FHC/ ABJ/CS/1115/2026, the two plaintiffs alleged that INEC gravely breached, disobeyed, ignored, omitted and deliberately failed to ensure compliance with relevant laws in the ways and manners NDC was secretly registered.
