BVAS: Probe allegations against Uzodimma’s ‘plot’ — Arewa group
Pan-northern socio-political organisation under the aegis of Arewa Consultative Youths Movement has called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd ), to investigate the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, for allegedly spearheading a plot to sack the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, and deactivate the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System.
But when contacted, Oguwike Nwachukwu, the Chief Press Secretary to Uzodinma, said those making the allegations had no electoral value.
However, the ACYM in a statement issued on Sunday by its President, Kabiru Yusuf, said it had identified Uzodinma as leading the group of people who were hatching the anti-INEC agenda.
The PUNCH reported that opposition political parties in Nigeria under the aegis of Coalition of United Political Parties, had raised concerns over fresh plots to truncate the 2023 general election through evil means, including stopping the use of BVAS and electronic transmission of results.
The CUPP had alleged that plans had been perfected by the perpetrators to create crisis of confidence based on trumped up charges that would lead to the removal of top officials of INEC, including its chairman and other national commissioners who were insisting on the use of the BVAS for the 2023 elections and the “irreversible” use of electronic transmission of the result.
The organisation said it was therefore important for the president as the leader of the All Progressives Congress, which Uzodinma belongs, to convince Nigerians that the plan was not that of his party by disowning the governor.
The statement reads, “We have discovered that Governor Uzodinma is the brain behind the plot to sack INEC chairman and deactivate BVAS.
“We are therefore calling on the president to investigate the governor which belongs to his party.
“This is the only way President Buhari can prove to all lovers of democracy that his party is not behind this Uzodinma’s plot. Punch
