What President Tinubu Signed Into Law Is An Electoral Thievery Manual – NEDMO Declares
In a strongly worded Press Release by the New Direction for Nigeria Movement, NEDMO, the group has condemned the Electoral Act 2026 (Amendment) Bill signed into law yesterday by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu referring to it as a piece of electoral thievery.
In a Press Release circulated to newsmen this Thursday February 19, signed by the group’s National Coordinator, Comrade Mark Adebayo, NEDMO says the Bill signed into law by the president is totally unacceptable.
“We received the news of the precipitate signing into law of the obnoxious Electoral Act 2026 (Amendment) Bill passed by the rubber-stamp national assembly with shock and disappointment. By signing this piece of electoral thievery manual into law so hurriedly by the president despite popular rejection by overwhelming numbers of Nigerians, the president has lost all his democratic credentials iretrievably.
“What we have seen is that the 2027 elections have been stolen in advance. This desperation to rig elections at all costs rubbishes the image of our democracy and destroys electoral credibility. When the APC is eventually out of power, it will suffer double portions of the electoral injustices it is dishing out to Nigerians today.
“That Bill was deliberately orchestrated by the National Assembly in order to perfect APC’s totalitarian agenda of turning Nigeria into a one-Party state and life presidency for President Tinubu. This is not only antidemocratic, but equally draconian, unjust, and a brazen robbery committed in broad daylight by those who only qualify to be described as political bandits. Nigeria has been stolen from us.
“It is so unfortunate and tragic that the power desperation of the president has deafened him to the loud cries of Nigerians for electoral reforms the most basic of which is a mandatory electronic transmission of election results real-time. There is nothing difficult in this except that the APC already knows it would lose in any free and fair election and therefore devised the means to rig the 2027 elections by hiding under the covers of an obnoxiously unacceptable law.
“No matter what the government says or does, this law is counterproductive to the development of our democracy and country and will continue to be resisted by Nigerians”.
