Festus Keyamo, spokesman of
President Muhammadu Buhari reelection campaign, has described those who
protested at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) as “known masters of rigging”.
On Friday, Senate President
Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of representatives, led a
protest to INEC headquarters over the Osun governorship election.
Among those who joined the
protest were Uche Secondus, PDP national chairman , Aminu Tambuwal, governor of
Sokoto state, Sule Lamido, former governor of Jigawa and Ben Bruce, senator
representing Bayelsa east.
They had demanded that the
electoral body declare Ademola Adeleke, candidate of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), as the winner of the poll.
The protesters also described
INEC as an arm of the federal government.
The opposition had claimed that
the rerun was rigged in favour of the APC.
Adeleke had defeated Gbenga
Oyetola, his All Progressives Congress (APC) counterpart, with 353 votes but
INEC declared the election inconclusive and fixed a rerun won by Oyetola.
Reacting to the protest via his
Twitter handle, Keyamo, a senor advocate of Nigeria (SAN), said “the protest
was more about the refusal of INEC to allow them practice their trade”.
“Some Nigerians I saw were
laughing out so loud today when they saw pictures of some know masters of
rigging ‘protesting’ at INEC office against ‘rigging’ in Osun State,” Keyamo
wrote.
“I therefore concluded that the
protest was more about the refusal of INEC to allow them practice their trade.”
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