The presidential running mate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Rotimi Amaechi, has accused politicians of stealing result sheets at unit level during polls.
Amaechi warned that politicians steal result sheets at the risk of the lives of ad-hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
Addressing a group of youths, the former Rivers State governor said: “On the day of election in your Ward and in your Unit, you finish voting, you stand for the counting. I have been a politician all my life, I have never worked anywhere before.
“I left university in 1987 and joined politics that same year, so you won’t teach me, unit level is where they vote.
“Politicians steal result sheets at the unit level risking the life of the INEC adhoc officer. As he comes, show us the result sheet or you are not going because politicians don’t care about your life, some parents must stop their children who want to be adhoc staff.”
He charged Nigerians to always insist on their votes being counted at the polling units during elections.
He added: “If there is a result sheet, we will queue up and when they finish counting, if you don’t upload it you are not going
“If we finish the election and there are one million persons in front of INEC and trust me if you do all these, ADC can mobilize one million people to INEC office.
“Don’t forget that there is an election that would have been rigged in Nigeria, the election that made Kwankwaso governor, how many of you remember that, when they looked outside and saw 500 persons what did they do, they announced.”
The 2027 presidential ambition of Peter Obi and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso suffered a fresh setback on Friday after a Federal High Court in Lokoja set aside its earlier judgment directing the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to register the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, as a political party.
The Eastern Updates reported that Justice Isah Dashen, who delivered the ruling, held that the court’s earlier judgment affected the rights of the Peace Movement Party, PMP, which claimed ownership of the logo adopted by the NDC.
The judge ruled that the PMP was not joined as a party in the original suit despite its claim over the disputed logo.
Recall that the NDC was registered by INEC following the same court’s order issued on December 15, 2025.
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According to counsel to the PMP, C.S. Ekeocha, the associlyiation approached the court after discovering that the NDC registration was based on a logo it had earlier submitted to INEC before the litigation commenced.
The ruling means the dispute over the registration of the NDC will return to the Federal High Court for a fresh hearing with all relevant parties participating.
The decision has since triggered widespread reactions from the NDC, opposition figures, legal experts and political commentators.
Opposition parties are warning that the development could have far-reaching implications for Nigeria’s multi-party democracy ahead of the 2027 general election.
