By Luminous Jannamike
ABUJA — Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has demanded an pressing investigation into what he described as ‘contrived’ voter registration figures rising from Osun State, warning that the credibility of Nigeria’s electoral course of dangers being undermined if the anomaly is just not addressed.
His Media Adviser, Mazi Paul Ibe, instructed Vanguard in Abuja on Thursday that Atiku was deeply involved concerning the sharp distinction between Osun’s new registration figures and people recorded in a number of different states.
“Sure, His Excellency is, after all, involved about it,” Ibe stated.
Figures launched by the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) present Osun State recorded about 393,000 new voter registrations in simply over every week of the continual voter registration train.
In contrast, not less than 5 different states mixed reported fewer than 5,000 new registrations inside the similar interval.
“Any try, any plan, or any agenda to inflate figures specifically states, or throughout the nation, needs to be investigated.
“There needs to be an investigation in order that nobody is left doubtful, and in order that the figures printed by INEC are seen as real, not contrived,” Ibe warned.
He pressured that swift motion was important to safeguard public confidence within the course of forward of the 2027 elections.
“That’s essential. It must be investigated directly. There’s an urgency to this as a result of what we are attempting to do is to take away each impediment that would undermine the integrity of the democratic course of forward of the 2027 normal elections,” he stated.
Atiku’s issues mirror these earlier expressed by the African Democratic Congress (ADC), which described the figures as statistically implausible and raised doubts over their credibility.
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