A former member of the House of Representatives, Dr. Usman Bugaje, has described President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as an accomplice in designing the 2026 Electoral Act to facilitate rigging.
This was as he stated that Nigerians are aware of who President Tinubu and top members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are, stressing that the electoral law has clearly shown who they are, adding Nigerians are not going to take it lightly as they will react appropriately at the right time.
Bugaje specifically said that the APC government led by President Tinubu is guilty of subverting the popular will of Nigerian voters and warned that there would be repercussions.
The former lawmaker who stated these when he featured on Channels Television while reacting to the controversial and hasty assent of the Electoral Bill by President Tinubu, pointedly accused those against the will of voters of being so obsessed with power for the control of state treasury.
In the words of Bugaje; “The executive arm, including the President himself, from the speed with which he signed that law, they are all an accomplice in subverting the electoral process of this country.
“They are all an accomplice in designing an electoral law that will facilitate rigging. They are all an accomplice in subverting the popular will of the people, and this thing that they have done is well noted, and there will be repercussions.
“I don’t know where it is going come, but everywhere in the world where such things have happened, there have been very serious consequences, repercussions,” he warned.
Bugaje, who is the chairman of the ‘Movement for Credible Elections’ noted that because the present public office holders are so obsessed with power, they unable to see the repercussions.
He said; “They are so obsessed with power. They are so obsessed with the control that they now have for the state treasury and the way they dispense money the way they want.
“Members of the National Assembly insulted the intelligence of Nigerians by passing the amended Electoral bill without including real-time electronic transmission of election results.
They must not attempt to deceive Nigerians with ‘cosmetic’ electoral reforms,” he stressed.
Commenting on the just-concluded FCT Area Council elections, Bugaje said Nigerians have lost confidence in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), stressing that nothing in the conduct of the exercise showed that things would get better.
