Nigerians Supported Peter Obi, Trusted INEC, BVAS But Got Unforgivable Flawed – Chimamada

Nigerian prominent writer, Chimamada Nogzi Adichie has confessed that she supported the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi to win the 2023 presidential election and was ready to accept the election result.

VerseNews Nigeria reports award winning writer in a statement via her social media handler on Thursday evening said many Nigerians trusted the use of Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) as promised by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to promote credibility and transparency of the election.

Unfortunately, the Commission did not deliver its promise as the election was unacceptable and unforgivably flawed.

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“I supported Peter Obi, the Labour Party candidate, and hoped he would win, as polls predicted, but I was prepared to accept any result, because we had been assured that technology would guard the sanctity of votes. The smoldering disillusionment felt by many Nigerians is not so much because their candidate did not win as because the election they had dared to trust was, in the end, so unacceptably and unforgivably flawed,” she wrote.

This Online News Media reports that many Nigerians are still in shock and surprise following the outcome of the presidential election despite coming out in mass to vote for their preferred candidate.

Contrary to the people’s expectations, INEC adopted manual collection of election results after announcing that the BVAS is faulty at the late hours of the election day.

The INEC chairman Prof Mahmood Yakubu at about 4.a.m on March 1 declares Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the winner of the election despite the election violence, intimidation and voters suppression experienced in many states across the country.

Peter Obi and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have gone to the court the challenge the electoral process as Nigeria’s constitution demands.