The Action Alliance threatened to hold a peaceful protest at the National Assembly on Saturday in response to the purported exclusion of its candidates from the Independent National Electoral Commission list for the 2023 general elections.Information Guide Nigeria
Dr. Adekunle Omo-Aje, National Chairman of AA, revealed this at a press conference held at the party’s national headquarters in Abuja.
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Live, Study and Work in Canada. No Payment is Required! Hurry Now click here to Apply >> Immigrate to CanadaOmo-Aje stated that INEC’s alleged failure to upload the names of all the candidates presented to it by its leadership, despite various court orders against the recognition of the list of candidates submitted by the party’s sacked national chairman, Mr Kenneth Udeze, could jeopardise the upcoming elections.
“We shall move to the National Assembly on a protest and to submit our protest letter, to inform our lawmakers that, if the INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, is not called to order, there will be negative consequential effects on the outcome of 2023 elections.
“We shall use all legal channels to ensure we get justice against any form of exclusion from presenting our candidates for elections, and every such election stands the chances of annulment by law,” he said.
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Omo-Aje alleged that “Yakubu is covertly orchestrating a clandestine plan against the 2023 elections, and Action Alliance will not fold our arms and watch our nascent democracy rubbished and wounded.”NYSC portal
He said that Udeze served as the party’s national chairman until June of this year, when he was suspended and expelled.
Omo-Aje stated that he was elected national chairman following a national election convention held in February 2020 and overseen by INEC authorities.
He stated that instead of Udeze challenging his suspension and expulsion from the party internally and through the courts, he launched multiple legal proceedings pushing the courts to designate him the party’s national chairman but lost all of them.
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Live, Study and Work in Canada. No Payment is Required! Hurry Now click here to Apply >> Immigrate to CanadaDespite completing all INEC electoral standards and procedures in accordance with the Nigerian Constitution, the electoral umpire is “hell bent on excluding Action Alliance from the next 2023 general elections,” he claims.
“It has gotten to the level for us in Action Alliance to come out in the open and make categorical statements loud and clear on the rooftop to the hearing of all concerned citizens of this country.JAMB portal
“This forms the crux of our press briefing, to draw the attention of the relevant authorities and the nation in particular about the miscarriage of justice in INEC, actively promoted by its Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu,” he said.
He also called on the Nigerian Bar Association to intervene in concertedly sanitising the legal profession by fishing out bad eggs among its membership.
“There is a clique of lawyers today on our streets that neither cares about the ethics of the bar nor give credence to professionalism.
“These lawyers sniff around for legal lacuna to exploit, not minding whether such constitute abuse of court processes or not.
“In the course of our ordeal, we have seen a lot of these tactical unprofessional practices where lawyers are engaged by persons to sue themselves as if they were truly sued in real terms, ” he said.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, at AA’s national congress in Abuja, Mr Solomon-David Okanigbuan emerged as the party’s presidential candidate, among others.
However, retired Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, a former adviser to late General Sani Abacha, won the presidential primary poll held on June 9 in Abuja by the Udeze-led faction.
Despite court rulings establishing that Udeze was no longer a member of the party, the electoral umpire had recognised all of the candidates given to it by the Udeze-led group.
There is also an order requiring INEC to accept and publish all candidates submitted to it by the AA’s Omo-Aje leadership.JAMB Result
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