A boycott of the upcoming Kogi State local government election, which is set for October 19, 2024, has been threatened by the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP).
In a statement provided to reporters on Thursday, Comrade Mohammed Kabir Abdullahi, the CNPP’s Kogi State Chairman, revealed this.
The Kogi State Independent Electoral Commission (KOSIEC) was voted out of office by Abdullahi, who maintained that the electoral body had not included all pertinent parties in the run-up to the council elections.
The chairman of the CNPP claimed that there was a lack of transparency throughout the entire election preparation process.
“KOSIEC’s decision to hold training sessions prior to the local government election without any political party representation is completely wrong. As of right now, we have not yet to know the modality for the council election.
They are leading us to believe that you have to be a member of their cabal or secret cult before you can cast a ballot in Kogi State.
“KOSIEC is meant to be a neutral body, but based on what we are witnessing today, the opposite is true.
“If the electoral body follows the APC’s lead in order to put their foot soldiers in power, it will be a rape of democracy.”
How long will we carry on in this manner? Kogi State cannot operate a parallel nation inside a sovereign nation like ours, and Nigeria is not a banana republic.
If we as stakeholders today fold our hands and let some power-hungry people deprive innocent Kogites meaningful representation at the grassroots level, it will be a blight on our current and future generations. Nigeria is implementing political reforms that need to continue.
“In light of this, we are warning the world that the CNPP may withdraw from the Kogi State council elections since we no longer have faith in the electoral body,” he said.