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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>An erstwhile Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of doing everything to frustrate the efforts of opposition political parties to form a force against the ruling All Progressives Congress in the 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n

Amaechi made this allegation on Thursday, when he featured on \u2018Politics Today\u2019, a programme on Channels Television.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery member of the opposition who belongs to the coalition is a member of the ADC.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre we stopping at that? The answer is no. I head a committee with the mandate of the coalition to pursue the registration of the All Democratic Alliance, ADA.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, if INEC had registered ADA, we would probably not have bothered about going to the ADC. The political space is closed for the benefit of the APC. I come to say that the INEC chairman is not ashamed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

According to him, the leadership was deliberately delaying the registration of opposition political parties.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact, what is holding the ADA for now is that we have yet to bring the address of our offices and the officers of the party that will submit in the next meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to call the other parties that had gone ahead with the registration, and INEC just ignored it completely.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of them, their rents have expired. So, the chairman of INEC is deliberately doing that so that there will be nobody fighting the APC. And they\u2019re not even ashamed that after (Maurice) Iwu, they organised the worst election; I would be ashamed,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The former Rivers State Governor, however, stated that the coalition, African Democratic Congress, ADC, would mobilise Nigerians to vote and stop people from rigging elections.<\/p>\n

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