Chieftains and members of the opposition coalition’s embattled political party, the African Democratic Congress (ADC), took to the streets on Wednesday morning in protest against the alleged partisanship of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The protest, currently taking place in Abuja, involves a procession to the INEC headquarters in the nation’s capital.
Announcing the development via his verified social media handles, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar described the protest as “peaceful” and aimed at “safeguarding our democracy and preventing the enthronement of a dictatorship.”
He wrote: “I, along with other leaders of the ADC, am peacefully protesting against the partisanship of the electoral umpire. Our patriotic stance is aimed at safeguarding our democracy and preventing the enthronement of a dictatorship.”
In the procession to the INEC headquarters were former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi; factional ADC National Chairman, Senator David Mark; National Leader of the Kwankwasiyya Movement, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso; factional ADC National Secretary, Engr. Rauf Aregbesola; former SGF, Engr. Babachir Lawal; Senator Aminu Waziri Tambuwal; Senator Dino Melaye; and the immediate-past Deputy Governor of Kano State, Comrade Aminu Abdulsalam Gwarzo, among many others.
Also joining the procession were a popular activist and electoral reform campaigner, Peter Randy-Akaah, and a mammoth crowd of ADC members and supporters.
Details later…
