IBB: Prof Nwosu Announced Suspension Of June 12 Result Without My Approval
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At that moment, I remember looking across the room and saying to Professor Nwosu: 'Go ahead with the elections. Go to your offce, hold a world press conference and tell everyone the elections will be held tomorrow as planned? I also recall turning to the Director of the Centre for Democratic Studies, Professor Omo Omoruyi, and telling him to inform his election monitors, foreign and local, that the elections were on. When I later received a call from the American Ambassador, Mr William Lacy Swing, we were both optimistic that the elections would go as planned, and that was what happened. On Saturday, June 12, 1993, the Presidential elections took place as planned. To my surprise, the polls were not just peaceful but very peaceful indeed! Voting took place in all the 110,000 polling stations in the country, and in keeping with the Modified Open Ballot System (MOBS) as stipulated in Decree 13, counting took place flawlessly in the open, followed almost simultaneously with an open collation that allowed for final results to be attained quickly. Using a giant board in front of its Abuja offices, NEC started, as early as June 13, as stipulated by the Electoral law, to display already-released results from all 30 State Headquarters of NEC before the Resident Electoral Commissioners brought them to Abuja for final ratification. That process of public display of results, which had now covered 14 states, continued until June 14. And then, on June 16, without my knowledge or prior approval, NEC Chairman, Professor Nwosu, announced the suspension of the June 12 election results until further notice. I knew instantly that certain fifth columnists were at work and that there was a need for extra care! And even after that suspension of the announcements of results, ABN obtained another 'strange court order from Justice Saleh's court in Abuja, stopping the release of the results of the elections. 5 3  |
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