An election observer group, Connected Development, CODE, has alleged plan by those it referred to as electoral criminals to rig the election by compromising the results.

The alarm was raised on Sunday in Abuja at a world press conference addressed by the Chief Executive Officer of CODE, Hamzat Lawal, who claimed he got the information from the organisation’s 20,000 community-driven observers on the ground.

Lawal alleged that the rigging technique involved slow upload of results on the INEC result portal, relocation of state collation centres without adequate information to stakeholders, outright denial of accredited observers access to new locations as well as issues of elections not holding in some local government areas but results being collated amongst others.

According to him, these criminal acts threaten the credibility of this election, and would make it possible for many people to accept the results to be announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

He also said they have had several reports indicating that states like Ekiti, Cross River, Imo, and Rivers State have had their Local Government Area (LGA) collation centers relocated without adequate information to stakeholders especially in Ekiti where LGA collation centers were relocated and in most cases accredited observers were outrightly denied access.

Nigerians deserve efficiency, they deserve fairness, with people denying themselves sleep and keeping wake under the rain, Nigerians deserve better from public institutions therefore they are calling on INEC to address these issues immediately. They are also calling on the Nigerian police as the lead agency on election security to monitor.