Foreigners Compromise Our Elections, Census —Ohanaeze
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The spokesman of Ohanaeze Ndigbo , the apex Igbo body, Mr. Chuks Ibegbu has alerted the nation that foreigners from neighbouring countries have been compromising our elections and census figures since independence.
Mr. Ibegbu stated this in a press release issued on Friday.
According to Ibegbu, “these foreigners who claim to be Northerners infiltrate our voters register and census register and compromise the figures”.
This has been happening over the years Ibegbu emphatically noted.
“Even some of them contest and win elections which means some foreigners have also been ruling us,” he lamented.
Continuing, Ibegbu further stated:
“No wonder things have been awry in the country over the years because these foreign rulers can never think well for Nigeria.”
He, therefore, called on the Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC] and the Nigeria immigration Service [NIS] to be alert to their duties to halt this trend and delist such elements from the voters register.
He called for improved monitoring of our borders, saying that ECOWAS free movement and protocol does not warrant these elements from compromising our sovereignty.
He also challenged governors of states at border areas to sync with INEC and immigration to check this trend.
“These people speak local dialects and it’s difficult to separate them from real Nigerians sometimes.
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“They must be stopped from compromising our elections and census,” Ibegbu reiterated.
He also lauded the release of the IPOB women whom he said were unlawfully arrested and detained at Owerri prisons.
“It’s highly provocative and vexatious to treat Igbo women that way. We cannot tolerate that assault and affront .
“We can’t bear that insult any longer,” Ibegbu warned.
ElombahNews had earlier in the day reported that a Magistrate Court sitting in Owerri, had ordered the release of the women belonging to the group – the Indigenous People of Biafra [IPOB].
They were released following cries over the intimidation of the women who protested for the release of their leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and other detained pro-Biafra activists.
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