{"id":175645,"date":"2025-08-23T11:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T10:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/inec-conducted-fraudulent-2023-polls-datti-baba-ahmed"},"modified":"2025-08-23T13:05:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T12:05:24","slug":"inec-conducted-fraudulent-2023-polls-datti-baba-ahmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-conducted-fraudulent-2023-polls-datti-baba-ahmed","title":{"rendered":"INEC conducted fraudulent 2023 polls \u2013 Datti Baba-Ahmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The former vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Senator Datti Baba-Ahmed, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of conducting a \u201cfraudulent and bad\u201d election in the last general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Baba-Ahmed stated that posterity would judge the electoral commission for the manner in which it declared the result of the 2023 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>The former lawmaker made this remark on Friday while responding to questions on Channels TV\u2019s Politics Today programme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question you\u2019re asking me about INEC, I have never been a critic of INEC. I don\u2019t have energy to spend on criticising INEC. INEC conducted a fraudulent and bad election, which is not, up to now, consistent with the Nigerian Constitution, the declaration itself, and I stated it that they have finished us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have declared a government that is in place and providing the kind of governance they can provide. So I have no business with INEC besides the statement of fact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, having cleared this, and it is very, very important statement of fact, let INEC do what they feel like, let their conscience judge them, let posterity judge them, let Nigerians judge them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The former vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Senator Datti Baba-Ahmed, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of conducting a \u201cfraudulent and bad\u201d election in the last general elections. Baba-Ahmed stated that posterity would judge the electoral commission for the manner in which it declared the result of the 2023 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":175644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[7935,251,254],"class_list":["post-175645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-datti-baba-ahmed","tag-inec","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>INEC conducted fraudulent 2023 polls \u2013 Datti Baba-Ahmed - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The former vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Senator Datti Baba-Ahmed, has accused the Independent Nation ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-conducted-fraudulent-2023-polls-datti-baba-ahmed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"INEC conducted fraudulent 2023 polls \u2013 Datti Baba-Ahmed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The former vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Senator Datti Baba-Ahmed, has accused the Independent Nation ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-conducted-fraudulent-2023-polls-datti-baba-ahmed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-23T10:59:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-23T12:05:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755938275.395298.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"721\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-conducted-fraudulent-2023-polls-datti-baba-ahmed#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-conducted-fraudulent-2023-polls-datti-baba-ahmed\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"INEC conducted fraudulent 2023 polls \u2013 Datti Baba-Ahmed\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-23T10:59:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-23T12:05:24+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-conducted-fraudulent-2023-polls-datti-baba-ahmed\"},\"wordCount\":211,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-conducted-fraudulent-2023-polls-datti-baba-ahmed#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755938275.395298.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Datti Baba-Ahmed\",\"INEC\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-conducted-fraudulent-2023-polls-datti-baba-ahmed#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-conducted-fraudulent-2023-polls-datti-baba-ahmed\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-conducted-fraudulent-2023-polls-datti-baba-ahmed\",\"name\":\"INEC conducted fraudulent 2023 polls \u2013 Datti Baba-Ahmed - 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