A former governorship candidate in Kogi State Natasha Akpoti says the visa ban on election riggers should be extended to principal officers of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Ms Akpoti stated this in a release on Tuesday in reaction to the visa ban American authorities placed on Nigerians who played sinister roles in Kogi and Bayelsa governorship elections and in the build-up to Edo and Ondo governorship polls.
“No doubt, the November 2019 election has set back Nigeria’s democracy decades of progress backwards and I do hope this ban is limited not only to the individuals in Kogi State Government but principals of institutions who were saddled with the responsibility to ensure free, fair and safe elections such as INEC,” she said.
“This action goes a long way to validate all claims my party and I made at the courts with regards to the gross irregularities of electoral processes amidst violence to install Yahaya Bello as governor of Kogi State.”
Akpoti added that Nigerians should remember that the country does not exist in isolation but as part of a community of third world countries whose actions shape her international relations with allies.
