We’re not mounting pressure on INEC Chair to truncate elections – Keyamo

Festus Keyamo, the spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, has debunked the report that the party was planning to stop the 2023 elections from holding.

Keyamo dismissed the report that the ruling party is making plan to stop the forthcoming 2023 elections from taking place by frustrating the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Keyamo has referred to the claims as false and unfounded.

This came as a reaction to the earlier allegation by the opposition political parties in Nigeria, under the umbrella of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), that the ruling party is planning to truncate the 2023 elections process.

Ikenga Ugochinyere, the spokesperson of the CUPP, made accusations against governors of APC of plotting a leadership change that would make their plans successful ones.

The spokesperson of the group leveled an allegation that the ruling party is plotting to frustrate the use of the Bi-modal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and electronic transmission of the 2023 election results and from INEC server in the forthcoming 2023 general elections.

He also said that the ruling party has mounted pressure on the chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu and some National Commissioners to deactivate the BVAS from the server.

Keyamo while addressing newsmen in Abuja, the nation’s capital, debunked the claims.

Keyamo said: “There has been absolutely no occasion, where the APC, either through NWC or any of levels of leadership, put any kind of pressure on INEC.

“Those sensing defeat are already looking for reasons for that defeat. It is one of the reasons, it is one of the excuses they are trying to generate to accommodate their defeat, but they should know that the defeat is imminent.”