In Nigeria, ADC accuses INEC of applying double standards
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Vanguard
The opposition party ADC accuses Nigeria’s electoral commission of condemning the “rig and die” slogan without reacting to a threat by an APC branch chairman to use AK-47s against opposition voters. In a statement from its spokesperson, the ADC asks INEC whether it referred the matter to the security services.
The opposition African Democratic Congress (ADC) accuses the Nigerian electoral commission (INEC) of applying double standards on electoral violence. According to a statement from its national secretary for information, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, reported by Vanguard, INEC was right to condemn the slogan “rig and die” (“to rig and die”) ahead of the 2027 general elections, but remains silent about a threat attributed to Jarrett Tenebe, chairman of the APC, the ruling party, in Edo State.
According to the ADC, this official reportedly threatened to use AK-47 rifles against voters who refused to vote for Bola Tinubu, the country’s president. The party asks INEC whether it has referred this threat to the security services, and says it rejects electoral violence regardless of who carries it out.
