An online petition has been signed by 316,071 people calling on the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union to cancel the visas of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu, over alleged rigging of the presidential election last Saturday in favor of the ruling All Progressives Congress candidate, Bola Tinubu.
At the time of filing this report, the petition, which was started on Thursday morning, had 316,071 signatures.
“I started this petition because Mahmood refused to do the will of the people. He rigged the election for APC against the will of the Nigerian voters.
“I am so very excited to see like minded people. So grateful guys. Let’s keep sharing,” the initiator of the petition, identified as Osusu said.
Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State, was declared president-elect after receiving 8,794,726 votes in the 2023 presidential election.
Tinubu defeated other candidates, including the Peoples Democratic Party’s Atiku Abubakar, the Labour Party’s Peter Obi, and the New Nigeria Peoples Party’s Rabiu Kwankwaso.
The Labour Party has rejected the result of the election over alleged rigging by the INEC, Nigeria’s electoral body. It has promised to take Tinubu’s victory to court.
In a statement, the party’s National Chairman, Julius Abure, described the election results as a rape of democracy in the country.
The LP chairman also claimed that the results were manipulated after people voted for their preferred candidates.