Afenifere has condemned the outcome of the February 25, 2023 Presidential Election, won by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu.
The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, also faulted the Independent National Electoral Commission on the conduct of the election, saying the commission did not comply with electoral guidelines.
This was contained in a communique issued after the general meeting of the group and made available to Nationwide Reports. It was signed by the Secretary General of the association, Mr Sola Ebiseni, in Akure, the Ondo State capital.
According to the group, the alleged non-compliance with the electoral guidelines by the INEC caused a series of malpractices during the last general election.
The communique read in part,” The deliberate non-compliance by the Commission with these mandatory guidelines encouraged electoral brigandage at the polling units which included the destruction of ballot papers, snatching of ballot boxes, doctoring of figures and swapping of votes of candidates at the coalition centres by amended and outlawed manual procedures which rendered the 25th February 2023 Presidential and National Assembly elections flawed in several respects as confirmed by local and international observers.
“The results of the lawful votes at the election available to the Afenifere through credible sources confirm that His Excellency Peter Gregory Obi, the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party won the said election and we thus support his decision challenging the contrary Declaration by the INEC.”