The convener of FIX NASS 2027, Comrade Kennedy Iyare, has urged Nigerians to ensure that electoral officers don’t leave polling booths without transmitting results of the elections to INEC IReV to ensure a credible election come 2027.
Iyare also said having a credible election is key to solving the problems bedeviling the country, adding that our leaders do not believe in the power of the ballot.
He made the statement at the flag-off ceremony of FIX NASS 2027 and Youth Empowerment program in Benin City, Edo State. Iyare lamented the weaponization of poverty in Nigeria and blamed the youths for the problem Nigeria is currently going through, maintaining that the youths keep blaming leaders without realizing that they have all it takes to change the narrative.
“The reality of the failure of government has become part of our lives, the reason is simply that our leaders do not believe in the power of the ballot. It is only in Nigeria that a politician become so rich by stealing our money.
In Nigeria government exploit the poor, because their only tool is the weaponization of poverty, I watched the SDP jingle of MKO Abiola in 1993, everything that he campaigned with then, has become worse, but the reality is this, if you ask me who killed this country, Tinubu is not the one who killed this country, not Buhari or any governor, you can think of but, the youths every one of you here.”
He decried the exploitation of women by politicians, who were supposed to assist them without sexual exploitation.
“A man who wants to help you as a senator, or House of Representatives member will want to sleep with you, your brothers who have left school many years ago and does not have a job, will be the ones to snatch ballot boxes and buy votes for politicians. The APC and PDP thugs are youths
Until the youth of this country stand up and say enough is enough, what you are passing through is a child’s play, you have not seen anything yet.
The SDP Candidate for the 2023 Presidential election, Prince Adewale Adebayo speaking at the event
“And that is the reason for FIX NASS. The campaign is to educate you on how we can fix the National Assembly. This is the biggest movement, that will shape the narrative in 2027. This is what we should do, let those who are decamping decamp, let them be 32 governors, we will reduce it to 12. In 2027, you can fix it, it is either the election is credible or inconclusive, every problem we have is tied to election rigging.
He berated the National Assembly for rejecting mandatory electronic transmission of results in real time, adding, “if the 10th Assembly has made the electronic transmission of election results mandatory, all your problem would have been solved. You know what that means, your Rep member will spend the money he is getting from Abuja well, the senator will spend his own well. Your governor is going to spend his own well, go and check Alao Akala’s property in Vanguard Newspaper, if the man could steal all these property then,
“If the 10th Assembly had accepted electronic transmission of results, that would have solved all our problem, it means our brothers in America would be looking for means to come back home. Nigeria is the only country, where holding public position automatically makes you rich, look at the Senate President, Godswill Obot Akpabio, he had a lot of agencies on his neck over corruption charges, but suddenly he decamped and he is made the Senate President. The meaning of Fix NASS is that all those members of National Assembly, who would have saved us from these troubles, if they had allowed real-time electronic transmission of results, be rejected”
He vowed to win Edo Central Senatorial Seat come 2027
“I am from Edo Central, and I am going to collect the Edo Central Senatorial Seat, look at what we should do now. Every polling unit belongs to a community. The electoral officer that is to conduct the election, if you don’t transmit electronically, you will sleep in our village. If you come to my community to rig elections, you are a coup plotter, and the penalty is death, but we won’t kill you, but keep you until you do the right thing.” He concluded.
Speaking, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) presidential candidate for the 2023 general election, Prince Adewale Adebayo said the youths have always blamed leaders for Nigerian woes, while they have failed to utilize the advantage of their population.
“I am happy that Comrade Kennedy Iyare has said this, because from the days when I was a youth at the University of Ife, we have been complaining about our leaders being our problem, but however from May 29, 1999, our political and military elite agreed that we can elect our own leaders and the method adopted means that minority will have their say, while majority will have their way, and the youths happened to be the majority. Once you have the majority, you will carry the day.”
On President Tinubu’s sense of majority, he said, “about a week ago, President Bola Tinubu invited all political parties to Aso Rock Villa for the end of Ramadan fasting. When they got to the villa, the chairman of Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC) told the president that the Electoral Act, which he signed, was not to the liking of the majority. President Tinubu, who like to pretend to be cool, lost his temper and said, you provoke me, by saying this you provoke me and he said I am the owner of majority, I will have my say, and I will have my way.
“How does Tinubu define majority, he is an accountant, it is a simple calculation, he has 32 governors, he has over 80 senators, he has over 200 members of the House of Rep, therefore he has majority. But when you calculate the people you have, they are not more than 500 people, so the 250 million Nigerians are nonentities, because in Tinubu’s eyes we are not in existence.”
“The problem now is that they have seen that these people they have manipulated, they can still come together and vote them out, so they have now manipulated the law. Before Tinubu, they manipulated election and they use the law to validate it, but Tinubu has succeeded in rigging the law.”.
