CUPP alleges APC’s plot to subvert 2023 elections, demands Buhari’s impeachment

The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has alleged plot by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to rig the 2023 general elections. The Coalition stated that available credible intelligence reveals alleged plots by the ruling APC to subvert and manipulate the 2023 general elections by imposing two options on Nigerians – to accept that there electronic transmission of results will not be adopted in the 2023 elections, or the Electoral Act amendment process will delayed before presentation to President for assent before 2023.

The Spokesperson of the CUPP, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, at a world press conference in Abuja, declared: “The information at our disposal includes the alleged late-night exchange of ‘incentives’ to most of the National Assembly members in the Harmonization Committee to see to it that the electronic transmission of results does not see the light of the day.”

The Coalition protested that “this is an insult on the sensibilities and sensitivities of the Nigerian people noting that this process of Electoral Act amendment commenced since 2016 and has not been completed 5 years after.”

The Coalition, therefore,  demanded the impeachment of President Buhari by the federal a;lawmakers, including the Senate President , Ahmad Lawan, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila., for compromising national interest.

Ugochinyere further declared: the APC members in the National Assembly “have agreed to drag this process and get up to their next year’s annual vacation by which time, whereupon a claim that by the ECOWAS treaty electoral laws cannot be amended less than six months to elections, the process will terminate like they did for the 2019 elections but this time with possibility of throwing the country into constitutional crisis.”

The CUPP insisted that Nigerians have declared support for electronic transmission of results; INEC has declared it has capacity for electronic transmission of results and is ready for the process. The Coalition added that the INEC position is immutable.

Ugochinyere cautioned that Nigerians will resist any attempt to rob the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of its constitutionally guaranteed independence by way of subjecting any of their activities to the political whims and caprices of the Nigerian Communications Commission.

The CUPP also declared: “We warn the National Assembly members that God will condemn them, and humanity will condemn them, if they doctor the Electoral Act amendment process and remove the electronic transmission of results or if they refuse to complete this process within a reasonable time.”

The rejection of the adoption of electronic transmission of election results has continued to raise suspicion of subtle plots to rig elections for the unpopular candidates of the ruling party. Generally, those opposing the adoption of electronic transmission of results in the 2023 general elections are widely conceived as principal beneficiaries of electoral fraud.