Rotimi Amaechi, a former governor of Rivers State, has urged opposition members to publicly oppose the Senate’s decision to reject the obligation to transmit election results electronically.
It was said that Amaechi participated in Tuesday morning’s demonstration at the National Assembly.
Speaking to reporters, he said the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was obstructing the broadcast because it was worried about losing the next election.
Amaechi stated that the opposition parties need to stick together and oppose what he called a single party’s attempt to control the election process.
According to Amaechi, “I think that the opposition parties should come out PDP, ADC, everybody should be out to protest against the attempt of one party.”
He cast doubt on the APC’s own conduct and rejected allegations that opposition forces could take control of such demonstrations.
“What is the APC doing if we show up and they claim the opposition has taken over the protest? Are they not stealing? Of what do they fear? They mentioned having 31 governors, I believe. David is not Tinubu. “Only the people can tell a good politician that he has done well,” he remarked.
Even though the ruling party boasted of having multiple governors and prominent opposition party defectors joining it, Amaechi questioned why the party would feel threatened.
He also said he was skeptical that either President Bola Tinubu or Senate President Godswill Akpabio would listen to Nigerians’ concerns, emphasizing that opposition parties and civil society organizations would keep pushing back until the ruling was reversed.
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